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LOS  ANGELES 


Mrs.  Sawyer  s  Poem, 


FIVE  SHILLING' 


POEMS 

ON 

I  A BIOUS  SUBJECTS. 

BY  ANNA  SAWYER. 
WITH  NOTES,  HISTORICAL  AND  EXPLANATORY. 


,/,/r,    r/,//-. 


1      'hamuia;  1'oesv!   who  Life's  ilurij  1  horn 
;■;  ;••  many  a  Kofe  of  fragrant  Hue  adorn! 
J  Souls '    whole  II 
ilm,   and  heal  l!  e  ...:. 

D'ilieali's  Defen 

i  '  i  \  'r  r.  u  Kon  t  ii  r.  a  i;t  fro  i!  ; 

■  '.    ;;"   HAWKINS,   BIRMIN'  ;IIA:  r. 

!  ■  ■:  )  ! . 


PREFACE. 

BY  A  FRIEND. 

IN  addreffing  the  public  on  the  part  of  an  amiable 
Lady,  and  the  firfl  production  of*  her  unpra&ifed  Mufe, 
■lelicaey  becomes  a  duty,  and  retrains  the  pen  of 
iViendfhip.  But,  in  order  to  mitigate  the  feverity 
of  Criticifm,  it  is  neceffary  to  remark,  that  fome  of 
the  following  little  Poems  were  written  "  in  the  days 
A  other  vcars;"  partly  for  the  amufement  of  a  private 
circle,  but  chiefly  to  diflipate  unavoidable  l'orrow.  Il 
is  a  melancholy  fact,  that  the  firings  of  her  iEolian 
harp  too  frequently  warbled  to  the  winds  of  woe.  I 
beg  leave  to  refer  the  reader  of  fentibility  to  the  Lines 
on  her  Hufband's  Picture,  which  tell  in  artlefs,  but 
highly  pathetic  drains,  the  ftory  of  domeftic  affliction. 
Pieces  written  in  this  defultory  way  gradually  fwelled 
to  fome  magnitude,  and  (he  was  induced,  by  the 
advice  of  her  friends,  to  amplify  fome  Poems,  compofe 
others,  and  publifh  the  whole,  in  the  fond  hope  of 
difperfing  the  clouds  that  hovered  over  her  worth v 
Hufband  in  his  declining  years. 

In  the  general  execution  of  a  work  thus  laudably 
undertaken,  in  polifhing  what  was  conceived  to  be 
rugged,  and  fupplying  what  was  defective,  in  occa- 
lionally  expanding  an  image,  and  interpolating  a 
fentiment,  and  particularly  in  contracting  the  Notes:., 


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the  was  afiifledby  a  Gentleman  of  erudition  andtauV, 
whole  liberal  fervices  (he  acknowledges  with  pride  and 
pleafurc. 

In  appreciating  the  merit  of  tins  production,  I  beg 
it  may  be  underftood  that  mine  is  the  Criticifm  of 
Friendihip;  and,  of  courfe,  may  differ  much  from  that 
of  the  more  learned  and  more  impartial  Reviewers. 
But,  I  may  fpeak  with  confidence,  that  Mrs.  Sawyer's 
chief  excellence  confifts  in  her  happy  adaptation  of 
the  Style  to  the  Subject.  Her  ftep,  though  varied, 
is  in  general  graceful,  eafy,  unaffected.  Tinged  with 
the  colour  of  her  prevailing  thoughts,  many  of  the 
Poems  have  a  melancholy  caft.  In  fome  places  (he 
is  beautifully  fimple,  in  others  elegantly  defcriptive .; 
and  in  her  Elegy  on  Mortality,  and  the  Verfes  on 
Mil's  Wearden's  monument,  we  find  traces  of  awful 
fublimity. 

An  Apology  may  be  due  to  the  Subscribers  for  the 
finallnefs  of  the  volume:  the  unexpected  duty  on 
paper  obliged  her  to  contract  her  original  delign;  but 
whatever  may  be  its  merits,  both  with  refpect  to 
quality  and  quantity,  me  fubmits  it  to  her  Subfcribers 
with  fentiments  of  unfeigned  gratitude  ;  anxioufly 
hoping,  that  thole  who  cannot  refpecl  her  talents,  will 
approve  her  motives,  and  that  in  a  liberal  Public  (he 
will  tiiid  a  Protector  as  well  as  a  Judge. 


ADDRESS  TO  THE  BRITISH  PUBLIC 

By  CharJi  3  C    :iins,F.fq.  of  Ch.  Ch.  Oxon,  I ;  ,0. 


\v  HEX  erft,   in  Greece,  to  fmg  the  Mufes  choi 
J'heir  firil-born  fon,  immortal  Homer,   rofc  ; 
In  Beauty's,  caufe  he  fang,   how  warring  hods 
Of  Gods  and  Heroes  mixt  on  Phrygja's  coalts  ; 
From  Ilium  won,   the  wandering  fage  he  led, 
fofs'd  o'er  the  rude  imperious  ocean's  bed, 
Himfelfa  Wanderer!  doom'd  by  fate  to  tread 
Admiring  cities,  that  deny'd  him  bread. 

Nor  leis  the  plaint,   \»hcn  Maro  liv'd  to  fing 
J  he  world  at  reil  beneath  Rome's  eagle  wine, 
Of  arms  to  arts  by  blindnefs  ill II  preferr'd— 

i'he  poet  lingered,  till  Mkc.enas  heard. — 
i  ain,   in  my  native  land,   would  I  forego 
i  u  trace  the  records  ot  poetic  woe  ; 
^  et  C)  '   tor  OrwAv's  doom  one  tranfient  tear, 
I  ho'  it  bid  Britain  bluih  the  name  to  hear. 
From  the  fad  leene  I  turn  to  happier  days 
And  pec:-  grae'd  with  more  than  emptv  Lav-  * 
By  Freedom's  hand,   in  annual  tranlport,  v  cw  ; 
"■  •  .  then,   ihall  merit  plead,   in  vain,   to  you? 

»  The  I  in-:.;  y  )        '. 


A  111 


Triumphant  Britons  !  tho'  the  trump  of  wa: 

Sound  in  your  ears  ;  amid  the  direful  jar, 

To  milder  notes  awhile  attentive  prove, 

And  the  foft  forrows  of  connubial  love. 

Of  wanton  flames  the  Grecian  Sappho  fung, 

To  nobler  aims  our  Sappho's  harp  is  ftrung  ; 

To  worth,  neglected,  your  attention  draws, 

Nor  dreads  your  cenfuie — 'tis  a  Husband's  cauf" 

From  life's  gay  morn,  to  fober  evening  gray, 

Contented  has  flie  trod  his  lucklcls  way. 

Children  of  woe  !  yet  bear  ye  on  awhile, 

And  fortune's  frown  forget  in  friendfhip's  fmile  ' 

For,  truit.  me,  Heav'n  a  tale  of  forrow  heeds, 

And  Britons  hear,  whene'er  a  Woman  plead 


'vV^^te 


POEMS 


VARIOUS    SUBJECTS. 

CHEDDER. 

A  IIY  cliffs,  majeure  Chedder,  wou'd  require*' 
Salvator's  daring  tints,  and  Milton's  fire; 
Such  rocky  grandeur,  fuch  ftupendous  views, 
Check  my  unprachTed  wing,  and  awe  my  Mufe  ; 
My  leeble  Mufe,  that  ever  loves  to  play 
On  the  green  fward,  and  trill  the  woodland  lay. 


*  This  prodigious  chain  of  rocks  ii  fituatcd  on  the  South  fide  of  Mendip 
[Ihls  in  Somufetihire,  near  the    town   <A   I  nedder,    which   has    long   heen 

•]r\:.v.'  ij  fi  r  .; ;  excellent  ^ncfe. 


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Trickling  beneath  the  rock's  tremendous  brow5 
As  chryftal  clear,  five  lucid  ftreamlets  flow  ; 
In  darknefs  doom'd  five  dreary  miles  to  ftray,  * 
Sparkling  they  rife,  and,  bubbling,  blefs  the  day. 
From  Wokey  Hole  the  truant  waters  flow, 
The  Witch  of  Wokey  all  the  neighbours  know  : 
The  wrinkled  hag,  as  ancient  ftories  tell, 
By  potent  magic  form'd  her  fparry  cell ; 
And  ftill  the  ruftics  her  utenfils  name, 
And  ftill  they  (hew  the  alabafter  Dame : 
Her  chair,  where,  mutt 'ring  backward  pray'rs,  (he  fate, 
Her  ftone  gridiron,  and  her  crony  cat. 


*  This  is  faid  to  be  proved  by  colouring  the  water  in  Wokey  Hole.  Wokey, 
or  O'.scy  Hole,  which  lies  live  miles  to  the  eaft  of  Chcdder,  near  the  city  of 
Weils,  opens  from  a  narrow  entry  into  a  large  vault,  whofe  roof  can  only  be 
feenby  light  of  candle;  its  grcateft  height  is  40  feet,  grcatcft  breadth  20,  and 
length  2co.  Among  the  various  configurations  formed  by  the  petrifying 
quality  of  the  water  continually  dropping,  the  people  heic  about  fancy  many- 
apartments,  utenfils,  and  animals,  belonging,  as  they  pretend,  to  the  Witch, 
whofe  refidence  this  cave  was,  and  whole  figure,  in  a  fparry  alabaflci  mafs, 
Shey  (hew  here. — A  plcafing  Poem,  called  the  "  li'it.b  cf  JVokcy ,"  written  by 
Dr.  II:arington,of  Bath,  i   infert-rd  in  Percy's  Relics   oi  Anliezit  Poetry. 


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boon,  with  glad  hafte,  thefe  lucid  flreamlets  meet, 
And  form,  round  fhatter'd  rocks,  a  foaming  (beet ; 
Rocks,  on  whole  furface  amber  limpets  gleam, 
And  floating  foliage  flutters  in  the  dream. 
Confervas  tremble  as  the  waters  drive, 
And  all  the  chequer'd  landscape  feems  alive.* 

A  pile  of  fragments  tumbled  to  the  fpot, 
Here  forms  a  curious  and  fantaflic  cot : 
Stranger!  if  weary,  lift  the  latch,  and  (hare 
All  cots  can  give,  kind  looks  and  ruflic  farcf 


*  The  bed  of  this  river  is  fand  mixed  with  fhingles,  and  in  many  places 
lhnoft  covered  with  broken  fragments  of  ftonc,  and  fmall  rocks  riling  above 
:iie  furface.  On  thefe  are  many  curious  aquatic  plants,  Po'ypoJiis,  sjj'pkr.~:ut::<t 
and  Confervas,  which  being  kept  in  continual  motion  by  the  ftrcam,  broken  by 
many  little  ledges  of  natural  rocks,  render  the  fcenc  inexpreffibly  bcautif.d. 
On  many  of  thefe  rocks  is  found  a  curious  kind  of  f re  ft »  water  PatJlj,  or  Lit-/  ■.-, 
fhaped  like  a  truncated  cone,  of  a  bluifh  and  amber  colour,  pelluci 
beautifully  ftriatcdwith  lines  of  bright  purple. 

j  Vifitors  ufually  bring  with  them  tea,  wine,  Sec.  and  a:e  neatly  ace 
dated.     On  their  benevolence  tl>i.  pool  fcqucftered  fami's  chiefly  i. '.'■:"..  .. 

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Great  God  of  Nature!  what  convulfive  fhock 
Cou'd  rend  thofe  pond'rous  piles  of  folid  rock? 
Say,  did  an  earthquake,  heaving  from  below, 
Split  the  vaft  mountain  with  tremendous  blow? 
Or,  were  the  maffy  crags  afunder  hurl'd, 
By  that  dire  deluge  that  o'erwhelm'd  the  world  r* 

A  fcene  of  wonders  rufhes  on  the  eye, 
Infpiring  awe,  and  yet  infpiring  joy  ; 
Projecting,  high,  the  Eaftern  Cliffs  afpire, 
While,  hollow'd  deep,  their  counterparts  retire  ; 
But,  faithful  as  th'  impreflion  to  the  feal, 
Their  ancient  unity  they  both  reveal. 
A  mile,  and  more,  the  yawning  ruins  wind, 
And  frill,  with  varying  grandeur,  charm  the  mind 


*  Thefe  cliffs  rife  above  800  feet  in  height,  and  extend  in  length  a  mile 
and  a  half.  Thofe  on  the  right,  or  eaftern  fide,  out-top  their  antagonifts ; 
and,  from  their  upright  fituation,  feem  to  have  fuffcred  lefs  from  the 
convulfion  that  broke  their  former  connexion.  They  are  generally  inacccffiblc, 
and  awfully  fublime. 


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VAVVM 


Chaos  of  crags !  here  fome  grotefque  and  bold, 
Stem  fhatter'd  battlements  of  catties  old; 
Others,  that  fright  with  their  enormous  fize, 
Form  craggy  cones,  and  leflen  as  they  rife  ; 
While  fome  lean  forward  with  terrific  brow, 
And  proudly  frown  on  pigmy  man  below. 

Vet,  here  coy  beauty  praclifes  her  wiles, 
Peeps  from  the  lofty  cliffs,  peeps  out  and  fmiles : 
And  as  in  air  the  rocky  monfler  tow'rs, 
His  giant  features  arc  inwreathed  with  flow'rs ; 
Ivy  and  wild  thrubs  clothe  each  vacant  fpace, 
Shade  every  fleep,  and  every  fiffure  grace. 
Benignant  Flora  decorates  the  fcene, 
And  fpreads  her  mantle  of  eternal  green  ; 
The  fhapcly  hart's  tongue,  from  its  oozy  bed, 
Points  its  green  fpire,  and  nods  its  humid  head  ; 
The  mountain  pink,   the  eye  delighted  fees, 
Wave  its  pale  crimfon  to  the  pafling  breeze, 
Artlefs  and  elegant — on  cliffs  fublime, 
Where  no  rude,  ruftic,  pilfering  hand  can  climb, 


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Thofe  flov/'rs  that  fcorn  in  other  foil  to  grow, 
Dangle  in  gay  feftoon.s,  and,  cluft'ring,  blow  ;* 
And  here,  in  vaft  variety,  we  view 
Pale  fhrubs,  contrafted  with  the  darkfome  yew  : 
She  o'er  the  whole  difplays  her  mournful  charms, 
Enjoys  the  dizzy  heights,  and  waves  her  airy  arms. 

Smooth  are  the  breezy  fummits,  fmooth  and  green, 
Where  breaks  abruptly  the  tremendous  fcene, 
And  the  fhock'd  eye  (brinks  at  the  gulph  between. 
Huntfmen  and  hounds,  advancing  to  the  bound, 
Start,  while  the  echoing  rocks  their  cries  refound  ; 
Beneath,  how  little  lordly  mortals  feem  ! 
Remote  and  dim,  flow  rolls  the  puny  team. 


*  The  fcenery  is  interfperfed  with  ivy,  fhrubs,  yews,  and  other  trees 
which  grow  out  of  the  fiflures  of  the  rocks  up  to  their  very  fummits  in  an 
elegant  diforder,  far  beyond  the  reach  of  art.  There  are  found  many  curious 
plants,  U-veriuort,  Aj "planum,  Scolcpertdr'ium  or  hart's  tongue,  Sergrecn,  Polypody, 
and  ThaliEIrum  or  Meadow  Rue,  and  particularly  the  Dianthus  Glaucus,  or 
Crimfon  Mountain  Pink,  called  the  Chcddcr  Pink,  being  peculiar <to  that  place, 
X;id  the  rocky  fummits  of  Mendip. 


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S.YV«,\« 


With  wonder  and  with  awe  I  trace  the  ftecp, 
And,  thro'  the  rocky  vifta,    long  and  deep, 
View  diflant  day,  view  funny  fcenes  expand,* 
Long  ftreaks  of  yellow  meads,  and  gleams  of  watry  land. 

But  oh  !  my  warmeft  eulogy  is  cold, 
Nor  pencil  can  pourtray,  nor  tongue  unfold, 
Nor  ev'n  creative  fancy  can  combine 
A  group  lb  llriking,  colours  fo  divine, 
As  from  the  fummit  to  the  bafe  adorn 
Thofe  glorious  cliffs,  when  breaks  the  rofy  morn 

Nor  yet,  O  Cjiedder,  end  thy  wonders  here. 
For  thine  are  ll  antres  vafl"  and  caverns  drear 
The  mighty  Power  that  rear'd  the  craggy  fteep, 
Iias  wrought  below  in  excavations  deep, 


»  When  from  the  level  top  of  thefe  terrific  cliffs  you  view  the  depths  below, 
new  fcenes  of  grandeur  rife  in  wondrous  pcrfpec'tive.  A  friend  of  mine  made 
;i  drawing  from  this  point  of  view,  which  exceeded,  in  magnificence,  ali  the 
others,  taking  in  part  of  the  town  of  Chedder,  with  the  rnarfhc  then  under 
v.ater,  and  a  f.nc  diftant  country  towards  Exeter. — It  i>  r:m?.r>v.' :.  :.".' 
:■  rc-gh  this  '•  h-;gc  Chin-  '*  :    r..  ''  ;  t    rnri  ::  r  id  to  Bilftoi- 


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Scoop'd  into  form  the  fubterraneous  pile5:, 
Form'd  Gothic  arches,  and  high  vaulted  iiles  ;* 
Where  the  rocks  gliften  viiihftalaElic  beams, 
Sparkles  the  fpar ;  the  chryftal  coldly  gleams. 
Here  jealous  Silence  guards  the  fhadowy  halls, 
Save  where  the  lone  drop  tinkles  as  it  falls ; 
But  fhou'd  a  found  difturb  the  tranquil  caves, 
Repeating,  long  and  loud,  their  angry  echo  raves- 
Yet,  with  fublimcr  fweep,  and  higher  {till, 
Rifes  the  proud  top  of  old  Mendip  Hill  ; 
Commanding  counties  in  its  wide  furvey, 
Rocks,  dales,  and  fpiry  fanes,  and  Severn's  winding 
way. 


*  On  the  fides  of  the  cliffs  are  five  confidcrable  caverns :  one  of  them,  the 
entrance  of  which  is  one  hundred  feet  high,  contains  many  curious  ftalaclicai 
productions,  fpars,  and  chryftallizations,  and  alfo  the  Lac  Lurne,  growing  like 
a  fungus,  extremely  light  and  friable.  The  cavern  is  very  rugged  and  uneven, 
but  contains  fome  very  fpacious  vaults  of  a  vaft  height,  the  natural  arches  of 
which  prefent  an  awful  afpcc't,  and  fine  echoes  are  reverberated  within  the 
walls.  There  is  another  fmaller  cavern,  in  which  an  old  woman  f(  me  years 
ago  held  her  folitary  rchdenr". 


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>mH8<|>  69att« 


LINES, 

Written  near  Rowberrcm-,  in  Somerfetfhire,  where  the  Author  lately  reOdcd, 

]De  AR  regions  of  paftoral  joy, 

For  ever  to  memory  dear  ! 
Your  name  I  repeat  with  a  figh, 

And  pencil  your  fcenes  with  a  tear- 
Mine,  mine,  was  the  bofom  fercne, 

When  the  wind  o'er  the  wild  brier  blew  ' 
No  groves  had  fo  charming  a  green, 

No  Ikies  inch  a  beautiful  blue. 

The  woodlands  fuch  harmony  breathe, 

So  fwect  is  the  dog-rofe  in  bloom  ; 
The  linnet  lings  wild  on  the  heath, 

And  the  bee  buzzes  over  the  broom. 


Iff 


But  fweeter  than  linnet,  or  rofe, 
Or  the  ftores  of  the  pilfering  bee, 

Is  the  {train  that  from  Gory  don  *  flows, 
From  Cory  don,  graceful  and  free, 

'Twas  his  elegant  tafte  that  refin'd 

The  ruftical  beauties  around  ; 
Humanity  glows  in  his  mind, 

And  the  Mufes  his  temples  have  crown'd, 

Correded  by  CoRYDONrs  hand, 
Old  Nature  enchantingly  fmil'd  ; 

The  lovely  combin'd  with  the  grand, 
And  Paradife  rofe  in  the  wild. 


*  The  Rev.  Mr.  T.  S.  Whallcy,  a  favoured  Son  of  the  Mufes,  who,  from  a 
tiXIlcnfcar  on  Mendip  Hills,  Somcrfetfhire,  has  formed,  or  rather  created,  one 
of  the  molt  delightful  places  in  this  Ifland,  commanding  an  extenfive  view  of 
the  Briftol  Channel,  with  a  vaft  variety  of  beautiful  home  objects,  and  the 
cloud-topt  mountains  of  Wales  in  the  back  ground. —This  pa  floral  is  humbly 
offered  as  a  grateful  tribute  for  former  favours  received  from  that  gentleman. 


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Oh  the  flope  of  the  high  climbing  hill, 
He  fafhion'd  the  terrace  fo  bold ; 

Where  vifion  may  wander  at  will, 
And  beauties,  unnumber'd,  behold. 

Grey  rocks  at  a  diftance  are  ieen, 
With  Severn's  wide  billowy  fhore ; 

Sweet  lawns,  and  the  fam'd  Cowslip  Green, 
Where  Poetry  dwells  with  her  More, 

Ve  Gods,  how  delightful  to  view 

Gay  villas  embofom'd  in  trees ; 
Huge  mountains,  by  diftance  made  blue, 

And  the  fails  gliding  dim  in  the  breeze, 

Jj-jt,  fore'd  by  my  fortune,   forlorn, 
Thefe  regions  of  beauty  I  leave  : 

Adieu  to  the  lark  in  the  morn, 

And  the  red-breaft's  fweet  hymn  in  the  eve  ! 

•  The  fummcr  retreat  of  the  celebrated  Mrs.  Hannah  Mo:e. 

n       ) 


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To  thy  cliffs,  awful  Chedder,  that  rife, 
So  pleafingly  fhaded  with  yew, 

To  thy  fummits,  half  loft  in  the  fkies, 
Breezy  Mendip  !  for  ever  adieu  ! ! 


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GLASTONBURY  ABBEY. 

A  POEM. 


ILLUSTRIOUS  feats  of  piety  and  praife, 

Where  fleep  the  mighty  dead  of  antient  days ! 

Renown'd  in  many  a  legendary  tale, 

Mother  of  Saints,  O  Avalonia,*  hail ! 

The  Mufe,  with  grief,  thy  priftine  glory  fmgs, 

Thou  tomb  of  Heroes,  burying-place  of  Kings ! 


*  The  antient  Iflc  of  Avaion  now  forms  the  hundred  of  Glaftonbury.  It 
feems  to  have  been  mif-named  Glajfy  (or  glafi-colsured,  that  is  verdant,  from 
glaji,  which,  in  Britifh,  fignifics  green  or  blue.  It  was  called  the  Iflc  of 
Avaion,  becaufe,  in  diftant  days,  the  fea  flowed  up,  and  covered  all  the  flat 
lands  furrounding'it. 


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Where  now  thy  radiant  fhrines,  thy  altars  blaze, 
Thy  fretted  roofs,  that  rang  with  peals  of  praife  ? 
Forlorn  and  filent  are  thy  poor  remains, 
In  all  thy  cloifters  Defolation  reigns  ; 
Beneath  the  fractur'd  arch  fhe  fits  reclin'd, 
And  hears  the  grey  mofs  whittle  in  the  wind. 

'Twas  here  Religion  fhot  her  earlier!  ray, 
Andpour'd,   on  Pagan  gloom,  refiftlefs  day, 
Long  ere  the  blue-ey'd  Saxons  fought  our  more, 
Or  Danish  robbers  bath'd  the  fand  in  gore. 
Departing,  weft  ward,  from  the  3yrian  clime, 
(So  hng  the  chronicles  of  hoary  time,) 
The  far-fam'd  Joseph,*  he,  who  rich  and  good, 
Sepulchral  honours  on  our  Lord  beftow'd, 


*  This  famous  Abbey  is  faid  to  have  been  founded  by  Jofeph  of  Arimathea, 
who  buried  the  body  of  Chrift,  and  whom  Philip  the  ApolUc,  of  Gaul,  fent 
to  preach  the  Gofpel  in  Britain.  The  moll  antient  monuments  evince  this 
to  have  been  the  firft  Chriftian  Church  upon  this  Ifland,  and  to  have  bec:> 
built  in  the  earlicft  infancy  of  Chrift  ianity,  about  the  year  60. 


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avwvM 


f  irfl  landed  here  ;  lor  thcfe  flat  marfhy  plains, 

Form'd,  then,  a  part  of  Ocean's  green  domains, 

Arriving  fai'e,  to  Israel's  God  he  rear'd 

His  pious  arms :  the  painted  favage  ilar'd. 

He  plants  his  Staff;*  the  Staff,  by  God's  decree, 

Infhmt  takes  root,  and  branches  to  a  tree: 

A  tree  that  blooms  amidit  the  winter  cold, 

Ere  fnow-drops  dare  their  icy  leaves  unfold  : 

For,  itill  obfervant  of  the  facred  hours, 

On  Chrifhnas-Eve  the  hallow'd  hawthorn  flow'rs 


*  The  original  hawthorn  tree  grew  in  the  fouth  ridge  of  W ferial  Hi::, 
which,  by  a  poor  pun,  Warne:  calls  IV 'c -ai y- all-Hill \  and  was  cut  down  in  th: 
civil  wars ;  but  fome  of  its  branches  are  itill  growing  in  the  garden  behind  the 
Abbey  Houfe.  It  was  brought,  originally,  from  tlie  Holy  Land,  of  which  it  is  a 
native.  In  the  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  an  over  zealous  proteftant,  not  having 
the  fear  of  God  before  iiis  eyes,  hewed  down  one  of  the  branches  of  this  holy 
thorn,  and  having  brought  his  deftroying  axe  to  another,  -imed  a  dreadful  blow. 
which,  happily,  did  not  efcapc  with  impunity,  for  ne  of  the  chips,  we  ar* 
told,  flew  into  his  eye  and  blinded  him,  while  th.'  axe  :s\-'S,  as  in  revenge  (.:: 
being  put  to  fuch  horrid  purpofes,  fell  on  his  foot,  2nd  v.-o.-rJ-  d  i:  in  a  t?rriL:<: 
a'inr.c 


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Now  Joseph's  holy  family  prepare 
To  build  an  humble  Ozier*  houfe  of  prayer  ; 
(Unlike  the  fplendid  dome  they  left  behind, 
Built  by  the  greateit,  wifeft  of  mankind  ; 
Where  beams  of  cedar  the  high  roofs  uphold, 
Enrich'dwith  Tyrian  tints,  and  bright  with  Ophir's 

gold.) 
But,  "  He  who  fills  infinitude,"  with  fmiles 
The  building  faw,  and  blefs'd  the  builder's  toils. 
Here  pious  Joseph  never  fail'd  to  raife 
His  morning  pray'r,  his  evening  hymn  of  praife  : 
Swift  thro'  the  Ifle  the  bleft  contagion  ran, 

The  natives  crowd  around  the  holy  man  ; 
Eager  to  hear  how  God  refign'd  his  breath, 
And,  dying,  fav'd  an  univerfe  from  death. 


*  The  little  anticnt  chapel  built  by  Jofeph,  is  f:ud  to  have  been  conftructcd 
of  twigs.  When  this  decayed,  Devcy,  Bifhop  of  St.  David's,  built  a  new  one 
in  520;  and  in  the  beginning  of  the  ;th  century,  the  church  was  rebuilt  with 
timber,  covered  with  lead,  by  Paulinas,  Archbifhop  of  York  and  St.  Auilin. 


2b 


Salvation's  tidings  were  with  joy  received, 
They  came  and  wonder'd,  liiten'd  and  believ'd  ; 
The  day-fpring  from  on  high  began  to  chear 
Britannia's  mud-wall'd  huts,  and  forefts  drear: 
While,  to  confirm  their  faith,  the  facred  Thorn 
Still  mark'd,  with  winter-blooms,  the  Saviour's  natal 
mom. 

Rugged  and  rude  the  antient  pile  appear'd, 
By  artlefs  zeal  and  infant  fcience  rear'd; 
But,  nobler  rofe  the  ftrudlures  when  decay VI, 
And  all  the  pomp  of  fanctity  difplay'd. 
Untir'd  Devotion,  glorying  in  her  toils, 
Points  the  high  arch,  and  ftretches  out  the  ifles. 
Dim  are  the  cells  where  gloomy  monks  retire, 
And  grand,  to  heav'n,   high  tow'rs  the  gradual  fpire: 
Fretted  the  roof,  and  fculptur'd  ev'ry  part, 
With  all  the  little  niceties  of  art; 
rhe  painted  windows  fhed  a  twilight  gloom, 
While  fplendid  fhrincs  irradiate  all  the  dome. 


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The  ftony  monuments  of  death  look  cold, 
Silver  the  faints,  the  a*far  flames  with  gold; 
The  choral  band,  by  taper's  holy  blaze, 
Chaunt  the  (low  dirge,  or  fwell  the  notes  of  praife. 
Religion  fmiles :    within,   without,   appear 
All  that  can  leaf!  the  eye,  or  charm  the  car. 

Here  fleeps  the  dull  of  Arthur,*  great  and  good, 
Arthur,  whole  fword  was  drench'd  in  Saxon  blood; 


*  Arthur,  the  Critiih  champion,  and  Chrifihn  hero,  was  borne  to  this 
abbey  a ft  i  Lite  fatal  battle  of  Camlan,  in  which  he  periihed,  about  the  year 
520.  lb.,  is  faid  to  have  worded  the  Saxons  in  twelve  different  engagements, 
'  nd  in  gh<  ;  .  1  ■  1  have  llain  two  hundred  and  fifty  with  his  own  ban 
yet  the  ignorance  of  the  times  in  which  he-  wrote  was  extreme,  as  is  proved  by 
the  barbarous  and  Gothic  app  arance  of  the  hiferiptions  on  the  leaden  crefs 
which  was  fomubiyer  his  coffin.  1  his  con'in.  formed  of  the  hollowed  trunk 
of  an  oak.  was  duj  up  here  by  order  of  King  Ilemy  the  Second,  v.. 
directed   to  the  p,..._  where  the  warrior'  ncS  were  depofited,  by  - 

legend  recited  to  him  by   one  el  the    Welch  bards.  -In  u  beautiful  Poem,  by 
the-  Grave  of  Kirg  Arlhw,  are  the  f.    !o\  ics  : 

*:    When  AkThvk  Low'tl  hi.-,  hdught)  cri  it, 
ir,.-. 
Si     '  hVl  him  by  Mssn         ,        :i!  !       !.. 
'     liiji  ,  blil  s  to  dwell  : 

ere,   rrc  •'■  r/d  with  v.    eali  ,  0!  ::, .,  .    ' 
'•  .'.,. .e.'.-  tct'd  Kb  -■,  in  'let  • 


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]  lis  country,   wafted  by  the  northern  fwarm, 
Found  a  firm  bulwark  in  his  fingle  arm. 
Me  and  his  knights,   in  many  a  bloody  fray, 
Fought  from  the  peep  of  dawn  to  letting  day. 
The  battle  ended,  in  the  feaft  they  join'd, 
They  lbught  like  heroes,  and  like  heroes  din'd; 
Drain'd  the  deep  goblet,  while  the  minflrel's  fti 
To  deeds  of  glory  rous'd  the  hardy  train. 
Accural  ambition  fn'd  young  Ammon's  mind, 
C.-;s.\r  entlav'd,  or  buteher'd  half  mankind; 
While  gallant  Arthur  rais'd  his  patriot  hand, 
To  five  from  plundering  hordes  his  native  land 


"  Cut,  when  he  fell,  with  winged  fp:ed 
"  His  champions,  on  a  milk  white  fleed, 
"   Ft  mi  the  '.aide'.,  hurricane 

■  :  .  :  :  him  to  Joseph's  lowci'ci  fane, 
•'    In  l!:  e  ia'n  I  lie  of  Av  .\  I.  on  ; 

"    Whiore,    with  ei;jutjted  oriion, 

■  And  the  long  bla/c  of  topers  tie  .: , 

■  1  he  lioied  fathers  met  the  bit  1  .- 

"   'I  hrriijih  the  dim  iiles,    in  ordei  dre.d 
"   Of  martial  woe,    toe  Chief  they  led, 
'■    And  deep  entoinb'd,    in  holv  ;';ionnd, 
"   Before  th  •  altar's  lolcimi  bi  u.h!, 

■  :.    ms  very  i  xp;cffive  :  for,  according  tu  Nciimtb,  n 
i  h.unm  :  : )  breah  ;  ic  hi  es  of  lions." 


^8 


Yet  thoje  found  poets  to  record  their  name, 
And  on  their  murders  fix  the  ftamp  of  fame  , 
While  none  were  thine,  fave  perilhable  lavs, 
The  bards  who  pruis'd  thee  could  not  write  thy  praiie 
Thy  great  atchievemcnts,  Britain's  brighteft  boait, 
In  loofe  tradition  float,  or  are  in  fable  loft. 

Here  the  fam'd  Dunstan  pin'd  on  meagre  fare, 
Counted  his  beads,  and  mutter'd  midnight  pray 'r : 
Dunstan,*  of  memory  auftere  !  who  broke 
Reluctant  princes  to  his  monkith  yoke. 


*  Hiftory  informs  us,  that,  in  thofe  days,  the  Monks  had  the  fupremc 
direction  of  affairs.  They  pretended  to  work  miracles;  crucifixes,  altars,  and 
even  horfes,  were  heard  to  harangue  in  their  favour.  But  Dunftan  had  no 
fmall  power  over  the  hoits  of  heaven:  his  illuminations  were  frequent,  his. 
temptations  flrong,  yet  he  always  refilled  with  bravery.  The  devil,  fay  the 
Monks,  and  that  ferioufly  too,  once  tempted  him  in  the  fhape  of  a  fine  woman  ; 
but  the  faint  foon  fent  him  off,  by  catching  him  by  the  nofe  with  a  pair  of  red 
hot  tongs,  and  leading  him  about  in  public  derifion.  By  the  afliftance  of 
fictitious  miracles,  Edwy  was  dethroned,  and  his  brother,  Edgar,  placed  in  his 
room.  Edward  the  Martyr,  who  had  not  the  leaft  title  to  fo  glorious  an 
appellation,  was  crowned  King  by  the  fole  authority  of  Duftan.  In  fhort, 
every  thing  gave  way  to  monkifh  power. 


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A  man  of  gloom,  yet  fo  fupremcly  wife, 
He  trick'd  old  "  Sathanas  with  faucer  eyes  ;' 
To  wiles  infernal  frill  fuperior  rofe, 
And  feiz'd  the  roaring  Devil  by  the  nofe. 

Within  thefe  cells,   in  coarfeft  garb  array'd, 
The  patron  Saint  of  Ireland  watch'd  and  pray'd; 
Immortal  Patrick  !  far  too  good  to  dwell, 
Immur'd  for  ever,  in  monaftic  cell. 
'Twas  his,  with  active  piety,  to  raife 
The  fteady  torch  of  Truth,  and  fpread  Religion's  blaze. 

Once  more,  illuftrious  Avalonia,  hail  ! 
Where  lonely  Learning  walk'd  her  cloiiTers  pale,f 
Handmaid  of  piety,   thro'  Gothic  night, 
Her  lamp  diffus'd  a  ftream  of  lovely  light. 


*  In  the  year  of  our  Lord  44S,  Mac  Eacherd,  King  of  Dublin,  and  all  his 
iV'^ects  were  converted  to  Chriftianity  by  the  fervent  and  intrepid  zeal  of  this 
;iiuftrious  preacher  of  the  gofpe!. 

f  LcSand,  who  wrote  in  the  time  of  King  Henry  the  Eighth,  fpeaks  with 
.  ,j  ture  of  the  library  l:".c  as  the  be  ft  in  the  kindom, 


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Hail  holy  glooms !   where  poverty  was  bleft, 
Sicknefs  found  eafe^  and  weary  pilgrims*  roil  ; 
Whore  mute  Repentance  rais'd  her  humid  eye. 
And  penfive  Piety  retir'd  lo  die. 

Oft  let  me  wander,  at  the  elofe  of  day, 
Amid  your  glimm'ring  ifles,  and  ruins  •f  grey; 


*  As  many  pilgrims  vifited  Glaftonbury,  the  Abbots  found  it  neceffary  t;i 
bui'd  an  inn  for  their  reception,  where  they  were  furnifhcd  with  all  the  nccef- 
faries  of  life  in  a  truly  royal  flylc.  It  is  ftill  ftanding  in  the  town,  and  known 
by  the  fign  of  the  George,  having  the  Arms  af  the  Saxon  Kings  o\  cr  the  gate. 
— The  fummit  of  this  Inn  is  turretted,  and  the  fpaces  between  the  battlements 
feem  formerly  to  have  been  adorned  with  human  figures  in  ftone.  Only  two 
of  thefe  arc  remaining,  their  heads  inclining  downwards,  as  if  they  were 
obferving  the  guefts  as  they  entered  the  gateway. 

f  The  relics  of  this  once  fuperb  edifice  are  fome  of  the  fouth  walls  of  the 
choir,  with  thofe  of  St.  Edgar's,  St.  Andrew's,  and  our  Lady's  Chapei, 
adjoining  the  two  caft  pillars  of  the  tower,  and  a  wed  arch  leading  into  St. 
Joieph's  Chapel,  which  is  entire,  except  the  roof  and  the  lloor.  The  church, 
with  St.  Jofeph's  Chapel  was  five  hundred  feet  in  length,  and  exceeded  all 
our  Cathedrals,  except  St.  Paul's.  This  Abbey  was  valued  at  the  diffolation, 
atjCiin  per  year,  and  the  prefent  rental  of  its  demefnes  is  above  A',  v  y."  o — 
(r  was  granted  to  Edwa  '  k;  i  '  S..::ierfet,  who  only  cj 
■■   ;  uli  it  to  nieces. 


M 


Where,  chonk'd  with  earth,*  the  pointed  arch  feaic 

peeps, 
And  o'er  the  moul'dring  wall  pale  ivy  creeps: 


•   'I  ."ii«  is!.;  rally  tru  .     Tb    i  irt'n,  in  feme  pin  .-.!::•"  tlf-.-n  fo  high,  tha' 
•'  /   top?  of  the  Gothic  arch  :s  arc  fcarcely  difct  r 

:       =  King  Arthur  and  his  Que  ".  ( •  in were  buried. 

:,Ki   itwyn.Kinjof  the  Well  Saxons,  Ei'.niundth:  Fir."h  Echar,  ar.J 
•    ui  Cithops,  thirteen  Abbot.-,  and  other  cm:. 
rv.nt  perl   nr.jcs ;    all    v.-h  :"    m  nmnent;   p.rc    totally   deiln  .■  J,  or  c-.r.c  li 
under  the  '  ibbifh. 

The  I        ;  !  t   1  ■  m:    nine 

create J   :*)  bit;  cicfl  u  time,    is  tin 

ifil'ine;  but  .•  to  an  ufc    f.i    wh    h   it    wa    nc  ■        in! 

f  5t.  M.r.y,  on  th    nr rth  flcit.-  of"  th    ehurrb    1  i  proftituti  J 

in:  >  a  fi.tbl.-.  :.  i:u  rao:t  pn.r.      Ly  pi:  .  :  .       ...     Cud;-,  ll 

.     .iiuch,  v/hieh  iitv  w; 

1  ■•'■'■     d,  v,  been  taken  av.rrv.   md  lniiteu  into  ciucrn-. 

:i    additional    p....    if  t'.ie    priilir.e    erar.d.u:  r. 

■ed.    it    it.  :■     :.   extenfr.c    plot   of   fi>.t>    ... 

k-id'im    1   i"s  th    i  three   hundred  do :r.c Ah   .   man;      i    -  hi  ..  ■       .    ■    : 

:  .■::.'.'.. 

went  a 

On    !  '■     '  ;  •'  ..     Etlj    ::;:•...  .    j      , 

Abb    t,  lcr  \v  hj;  tv.    i        his  '  i       . 

itll.        .....  ;:.     J.  ;.d  to  let  I  ■-..:,  I:.* 


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Where,  as  I  ftep,  the  clam'rous  jackdaw  fprings 
And  in  the  Holy  Thorn  the  redbreaft  lings. 
To  fee  the  dire  effects  of  wafting  years, 
The  eye  of  contemplation  fwims  in  tears: 
O'er  fainted  duft  the  noxious  nettles  fpread, 
The  thiftle  nods  above  the  mighty  dead  ; 
And  not  one  folitary  fragment*  fhews 
Where  heroes  moulder,  or  where  kings  repofe. 


thofe  of  Canterbury  or  Durham.  The  hofpitality  of  this  Abbot  was  fuch,  that 
he  often  entertained  five  hundred  horferaen  at  a  time.  Since  the  difiblution 
of  religious  houfes,  the  chief  fupport  of  the  town  was  the  great  number  of 
viators;  but  the  inhabitants  having,  with  Gothic  ftupidity,  removed  many  ol 
the  ftones  to  repair  their  houfes,  the  number  of  vifitors  is  much  diminished. 

*  Speaking  of  thefe  ruins,  the  Rev.  Mr.  Warner,  in  his  "  Walk  through  fine 
of  the  Wijlern  Counties,"  fays — "  Though  time  has  fpared  but  little,  that 
little  exhibits  cxquifite  fpecimens  of  fculptural  fit  ill."  He  fays,  that  St, 
Jofeph's  Chapel  carries  architectural  elegance  to  a  pitch  beyond  what  his  fane ;. 
could  conceive.  Its  ftyle  is  mixed,  partly  Anglo-Norman,  or  what  is  vulgail} 
.•ailed  Saxon,  and  partly  Gothic,  both  perfect  in  their  kind.  Nor  is  it  poffiblc 
to  pafs  the  northern  entrance  without  admiration,  for  here  the  builder  feen:^ 
?■:■  have  exerted  all  his  efforts  to  produce  an  architectural  wonder. 


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Yet  thofe,  there  are,  I  pity  from  my  foul, 
Who  with  light  fneer,  or  philofophic  fcowl, 
Can  view  the  dreadful  havoc  made  by  Time, 
On  ftructurcs  once  fo  facred  and  fublime. 
For  me,  I  venerate  the  very  place 
Where  firft  Religion  fhew'd  her  radiant  face: 
Heart-ftruck,  I  view  thefe  defolated  piles, 
Thefe  brambled  cloifters,  and  thefe  weedy  ifles. 
The  wife  and  good  will  fympathizc*  with  me, 
And  feel,  O  Avalonia,  feel  one  pious  pang  for  tb.ee! 


The  tranfepts  of  the  great  church  fpread  to  a  breadth  of  135  feet,  riling  to  a 
fublime  height,  adorned  with  innumerable  fhrines,  *'  antic  pillars,"  fculptured 
windows,  and  painted  glafs  ;  the  whole  executed  in  the  pureft  Gothic  taite,  and 
finished  with  the  moft  elaborate  art.  It  is  impoffiblc  to  quit  this  fubjee! 
without  moli  ferioufly  regretting  the  grofs  inattention  paid  to  thefe  venerable 
rr-mains,  and  fcandalous  violation  of  the  aflies  of  the  dead. 


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>»«»®«25>IS>®««<i 


ON  A  PAINTED  WINDOW, 

Which  exhibits  an  amiable  young  Lady  rifing  from  the  Dead. 


Wijejec 


JoEHOLD  that  lovely  form,  from  fleep  profound 
New-wak'd,  andfpringing  from  the  fra&ur'd  tomb! 

While  worlds,  unheeded,  fall  in  ruins  round, 
And  the  dread  trumpet  founds  the  note  of  doom, 

In  holy  trance,  with  fix'd  extatic  gaze, 

She  views  the  realms  of  light  that  opening  glow: 

.She  hears  the  hymns  of  "  inexpreffive"  praife, 
And  fpurns  at  worldly  vanity  below. 

She  hears  the  voice  of  welcome  horn  above, 
"•  Come,  fainted  maid,  celeflial  filler,  come!" 

Supporting  angels,  with  a  fmile  of  love, 

Wart  'he  "  accepted"  to  her  heav'aly  home. 


O  ye  v,  ho  wept  upon  the  hajlow'd  clay, 

And  law,  with  anguifh,  her  meek  head  laid  low, 

Look  on  the  glory  thefe  bright  fcenes  dilplay, 
And,  if  ye  can,  indulge  one  moment's  woe! 

What  are  the  pageants  that  (he  left  behind  ? 

The  pride  of  birth,  and  fortune's  glitt'ring  toy?, 
And  youth's  warm  bloom?  ferenely  (lie  reiignd 

'The  painted  fhadows  for  fubftantial  joys. 

When  the  low  fun  dreams  through  the  pictur'd  glafc, 
And  gives  the  traits  a  more  etherial  hue; 

Th'  exprerlive  fcenes  all  fallacy  furpafs, 

And  the  foul,  darting,  thinks  the  vifion  true 

Full  oft  Devotion  here  ihall  turn  her  eyes, 

Awhile  forgetful  of  the  facred  fhive; 
And  view,  with  thoughts  that  kindle  as  they  rile 

The  Chriilian  triumph  o'er  the  greedy  ^ravc 
E  2 


O  never  may  thefe  radiant  tints  expire, 
But  feel  the  mellowing  pow'r  of  foft  decay! 

Till  the  fkies  glow  with  no  diiTembled  fire, 
And  flames,  in  earner!,  the  tremendous  day ' 


The  much-admired  window,  which  is  the  fubject  of  this  Poem,  decorates 
the  Church  cf  Afton,  near  Birmingham,  and  was  executed  by  the  celebrated 
Mr.  Eginton.     The  defign  is  as  follows : 

In  the  opening  of  a  Gothic  arch,  executed  in  ftatuary  marble,  the  lady  is 
reprefented  as  juft  rifing  from  the  mattered  tomb,  amidft  a  mafs  of  clouds,  and 
.group  of  angels.  She  is  in  an  attitude  of  adoration,  and  looking,  with  rapture, 
towards  a  descending  gloiy.  On  one  fide  of  the  fepulchre  is  the  imperfect 
form  of  a  fhield,  which  once  contained  the  armorial  bearings  of  the  family, 
emblematical  of  the  inftability  of  all  earthly  grandeur. 

This  window  is  in  commemoration  of  the  good,  the  fonder,  the  accom 
plifned,  and  pious  Mil's  Wearden,  of  Solihull,  Warwickshire. 


^^ 


^ 


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LINES, 

Written  on  feeing  my  Hufband's  Pidure,  painted  when  he  was  young, 

[Written  in  179S.3 
1. 

I  HOSE  arc  the  features,  thofe  the  fmiles, 

That  firft  engag'd  my  virgin  heart: 
I  feel  the  pencil'd  image  true, 
I  feel  the  mimic  pow'r  of  art. 

2. 
For  ever  on  my  foul  engrav'd 

His  glowing  cheek,  his  manly  mien; 
1  need  not  thee,  thou  painted  (hade, 

To  tell  me  what  mv  Love  has  been. 


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0  clearer  now,  tho'  bent  with  age, 
Than  in  the  pride  of  blooming  youth ! 

1  knew  not  then  his  conftant  heart, 

I  knew  not  then  his  matchlefs  truth. 

4. 
Full  many  a  year,  at  random  toft, 

The  fport  of  many  an  adverfe  gale, 
Together,  hand  in  hand,  we?ve  ftray'd, 

O'er  dreary  hill,  and  lonely  vale, 

5. 
Hope  only  flattered  to  betray, 

Her  keener!  (hafts  misfortune  fhot : 
In  fpite  of  prudence,  fpite  of  care, 

Dependence  was  our  bitter  lot. 

6. 

Ill  can'il  thou  bear  the  fneer  of  wealth, 
Averted  looks,  and  ruftic  fcorn; 

For  thou  wert  born  to  better  hopes, 
And  brighter  rofe  thy  vernal  morn, 


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7. 

Thy  ev'ning  hours  to  want  expos'd, 
I  cannot,  cannot  bear  to  fee: 

Were  but  thy  honeft  heart  at  eafe, 
I  care  not  what  becomes  of  me. 

S. 
But  tho',  my  Love,  the  winds  of  woe. 

Beat  cold  upon  thy  filver  hairs, 
Thy  Anna's  bofom  ftill  is  warm; 

Afifeclion  ftill  fhall  foothe  thy  cares. 

9. 
And  Confcience,  with  unclouded  ray, 

The  cottage  of  our  age  will  chcar  • 
Friendship  will  lift  our  humble  lately 

And  Pity  pour  her  healing  tear. 


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►iir,illl©llinm« 


On  the  Death  of  a  favourite  Spaniel, 

[Written  in  1794.] 

BENEATH  this  humble  graffy  fod, 

O'er  which  the  woodbine  fondly  twines, 

And  the  lov'd  robin  neftles  near, 
Fidelity  herfelf  reclines. 

When  Fortune's  terrifying  blafts 

Drove  ev'ry  funimer- friend  away, 

Thee,  faithfol  Fannv,  ftill  I  found, 
Companion  of  my  woe-worn  way. 

Nought,  fellow-rambler,  couldft  thou  know 
Of  woes  that  rent  my  aching  breaft ; 

Oft  did  thy  bark  of  joy  difturb 

The  fluttering  fky-lark  from  her  nefi, 

Oft  did  thy  rude  unconfcious  paws 
Dare  my  unfpotted  robes  to  foil  ; 

Yet  ftill  thy  tender,  artlefs  whine, 
Converted  anger  to  a  fmilc. 

Farewell  !  O  could  the  grateful  Mufe, 

With  tears  of  genius  bathe  thy  tomb! 

Bid  the  poetic  myrtle  there, 

And  there  the  dog-rofc  ever  bloom  ! 


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:  e»©®j<£Jg>|8e»»< 


KEMLWORTH  CASTLE. 

A  POEM. 


iS  this  the  Caftle  *  once  extol  I'd  fo  high, 
That  Hiftory  feems  a  fiction,  Truth  a  lie? 
Did  princely  fplcndour  once  thole  walls  adorn, 
Joy  wave  her  torch,  and  Plenty  pour  her  horn? 
Ami  great  Eliza,  with  her  courtiers  gay, 
Spend  nights  in  revels,   and  in  fports  the  day? 


•  This  famous  Caillc.  once  the  relidencc  of  Kings,  and  pride  of  Warwick- 
shire, is  accurately  def-ribed  in  alette*  from  an  attendant  in  Court,  to  his 
friend,  a  citizen  of  London,  and  dated  from  the  Court  of  Worcefler,  the  2oth 
■  f  Aujuft,  1 57 j.  This  account  is  rendered  curious  by  its  antient  orthography, 
and  quaintnefs  of  defcription ;  foi  which  icafon,  I  hope  I  (lull  be  c: 
i  >g copious  extract"  fv.ni  i; 

I- 


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Whole  weeks  indulging  in  each  colli y  joy, 
That  genius  cou'd  invent,  or  wealth  cou'd  buy  ? 
Alas!   how  chang'd!  high  grai's  o'crtops  the  wall, 
Brambles  and  weeds  choak  up  the  mould' ring  hall : 
O'er  the  green  fofle  the  favage  fragments  low'r, 
And  robes  of  ivy  clothe  the  (hatter' d  tow'r. 

Where  yon  broad  meadow  fpreads  its  graffy  pride, 
Once  roll'd  a  mafs  of  waters,*  deep  and  wide; 


"  This  Caftle,"  fays  the  aforefaid  letter,  u  was  firft  reared  by  Kcnulph„ 
and  his  young  fon  Kenelm,  of  the  race  of  Saxons,  who  firft  reigned  Kings  of 
March-land  (MerciaJ  from  the  year  of  our  Lord  798,  too  23  years  toogyther, 
about  777  years  ago."— [This  is  not  correctly  right :  the  Caftle  here  alluded  to, 
was  fituated  in  the  woods  oppofite  Stoncleigh  Abbey,  in  this  parilh,  and  was 
demolifhcd  in  King  Edmund's  wars  with  the  Danes.  The  prcfent  fabric  was 
erected  about  the  year  11 20,  by  Geoffrey  de  Clinton,  a  Norman,  who  was  Lord 
Chamberlain  and  Treafurer  to  King  Henry  the  Firft.] — "  It  ftands  in 
Warwickfhire,  feventy-threc  myle  north-weft  from  London,  and,  az  it  werc> 
in  the  navel  of  England,  foure  myle  fomewhat  from  Coventrec,  a  proper 
citee,  and  a  lyke  diftance  from  Warwyk,  a  faire  fheere  town,  in  ayr  fweet  and 
holfum,  raifed  on  an  eafy  mounted  hill,"  &c. 

*  "  Too  advantage  hath  it  hard  on  the  weft  a  goodlie  pool,  of  rare  beauty, 
breadth,  length,  and  deph,  and  ftore  cf  all  kinds  of  frefh  water  fifti,  delicat, 
great,  and  fat ;  and  alfo  of  wild  foowl  befides.     Ey  a  natural  arnitce  feemz  thir 


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A  guardian  lake,  that  in  its  lucid  fold 
Wrapt  the  embattled  walls,  and,  quiv'ring,  roll'd. 
With  filh  and  1'owl  the  furface  fecm'd  alive, 
Proud  rows  the  fwan,  the  fpeckled  wild-ducks  dive 
The  plunging  fiih  a  thoufand  circles  make. 
Dimpling  the  glafTy  bolbm  of  the  lake. 
Along  the  banks  a  tall  majeftic  wood 
Cafls  its  brown  umbrage  o'er  the  filver  flood  ; 
And  next  a  wide  extended  park  appear'd, 
Where  {lately  deer  their  branching  antlers  rear'--! .; 
Gardens  that  Flora's  lovelieft  tints  unfold, 
Orchards  that  glow  with  vegetable  gold; 
Delightful  fhrubb'ries,  interfpers'd  with  thefc 
Gay  bow'rs  of  pleafure,  and  cool  grots  of  eafe 


pool  conjoined  to  the  Caftle,  that  on  the  weft  hyz  the  head,  as  it  wear,  upon 
the  Caftlz  bofom,  cmbraecth  it,  fouth  and  north,  with  both  arms,  ft  retching 
fvorth  body  and  legs  a  myie  or  too  weftward,  between  a  fayrc  park  on  the 
one  fide,  and  on  the  oother  a  goodlie  chafe,  full  of  red  deer,  and  other  ftatcly 
gama  for  hunting  ;  beautified  with  many  delectabie,  frefh,  and  umbiagiaous 
boowz,  arberz,  featz,  and  w..i.-  5,  that  with  great  art,  coft,  and  diligent,  wear 
very  pieafantly  appointed." — Tic  fame  Letter. 
Tas  pool  covered  one  hundred  and  eleven  acres  c-fland. 
F  2 


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Charm  the  wild- roving  eye — but  where,  ah  where? 
The  fairy  virion  is  difTolv'd  in  air: 
Woods,  lakes,  and  parks  no  longer  ftrike  the  eye, 
Reflection  fickens,  Hift'ry  heaves  a  figh. 

Ere  the  ct  deep-throated"  cannon  learnt  to  roai, 
Or  murd'rous  bombs  their  way,  refifUcfs,  tore; 
This  vet'ran  fortrefs,  rough  with  many  a  fear, 
Laugh'd  at  the  idle  implements  of  war. 
Edward,*  with  all  his  might,  the  walls  aflfails, 
Edward,  the  fcource  of  Scotland  and  of  Walls.; 


*  Wrhen  the  famous  Simon  Montfort,  Earl  of  Leiccfter,  who  headed  the 
*-ebel  Barons  in  the  reign  of  Henry  the  Third,  v»  as  defeated  and  (lain  at  the 
battle  of  Evefham,  by  Edward  Prince  of  Wales,  (afterwards  Edward  the  Firft,) 
the  mattered  remains  of  the  rebel  army  took  refuge  in  this  fortrefs.  Henry  de 
Haftings,  the  Governor,  made  a  moil  gallant  refiflance  againft  the. united  force". 
of  the  victorious  Prince.  Being  provided  with  engines  to  throw  ftones  of 
a  prodigious  fize  (forne  ol  which  have  been  found;  and  making  frequent  and 
bold  fallies,  lie  baffled  all  the  efforts  of  the  befiegers  for  fix  months ;  when 
famine  and  difeafe  having  made  great  havoc  in  the  garrifon,  he  furrendered  on 
the  mofl  honourable  terms.  This  ficge  was  productive  of  much  mifchief  to 
tho  Monaftcry  f"!  Black  Canons     founded  by   the  above  named  Geoffrey  dc 


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Asainft  them  the  whole  nation's  ftrength  lie  drew, 
Then  whizz'd  the  fpear,  and  twang'd  the  bow  of 

yew. 
In  vain  huge  balls  ol"  (lone  were  taught  to  flv, 
The  inafiy  bulwarks  all  aflaults  defy; 
The  neighb'ring  convent  hears  the  dire  alarms, 
\nd  the  pale  priefls  Hart  at  the  din  of  arms. 
At  length,  when  fix  long  mom  lis  were  {pent  in  vain 
Famine  effects  what  valour  could  not  gain; 
And  fhouts  of  triumph  echoing  to  (he  ikies, 
On  C.iSARs  tow'i  *  the  royal  (landard  flics.    , 

Penlive  we  view   von  walls  with  mois  o'ergrown, 
Walls  that  once  echo'd  with  a  monarch's  moan: 


i     and    >.:..:...:..    ,...:::..■    h.    the  eater.-:;   a'.id  part  cf  the  chaprl  ;■: 
w.i  rem:  in. 

»  u  T:u  C.u'tle  hath  one  auncirnt.    nrong,  and  large  keep,  that  u   called 
t .':.:/  Towr;  rather,  az  1  have  good  cauz  to  think,  for  that  it  is  fquare  and 

ormed  after  the  manner  of  Cxfarz  Fortz,   than  that  ever  h;  bylt  w 
■    '■  above  mentioned  letter. — Th"^  teve:  '■•'■■  the   ."t r- -nc :■'"  and  m    " 

••   '  •  :.'  Dart  of  the  f.tV.ic. 


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The  royal  wretched  outcaft  of  mankind, 
The  fecond  Edward,*  here  in  thraldrom  pin'd 
Degraded  lower  than  the  lowed  clown, 
Here  he  refign'd  his  fceptre  and  his  crown. 


*  This  unfortunate  Prince  was  certainly  unfit  to  hold  the  reins  of  govern- 
ment in  thofe  turbulent  times.  lie  had  no  vices ;  but  was  unhappy  in  a  total 
incapacity  for  fcrious  bufmefs.  His  chief  fault  was,  the  violence  of  his 
attachment  to  favourites  at  once  infolent  and  rapacious.  Inftigated  by  his 
Queen  Ifabella,  and  Mortimer,  with  whom  ihe  carried  on  a  criminal  intercourfe, 
the  whole  kingdom  rofc  againft  him.  Endeavouring  to  hide  himfelf  in  the 
Mountains  of  Wales,  he  was  difcovercd,  put  into  the  cuftody  of  the  Earl  of 
Leicefter,  and  confined  in  this  Caftlc,  where  a  rellgnation  was  extorted  from 
him  by  terror.  But  the  treatment  he  experienced  here  being  confidered  too 
humane,  he  was  removed  to  Berkley  Caiue,  where  he  met  with  every  fpecies 
01  indignity. 

It  is  reported,  his  mercenary  keepers  fhaved  him  for  fport  in  the  open  fields., 
with  water  from  a  neighbouring  ditch.  On  this  occafion  his  firmnefs  forfook 
him;  he  looked  upon  his  mercileis  perfecutors  with  an  air  of  fallen  majefty, 
and  fhed  a  torrent  of  tears.  But  this  method  of  laying  him  in  his  grave  being 
thought  too  flow,  he  was  at  laft  diipatched  by  thrufting  a  red  hot  iron,  inferted 
through  a  horn,  into  his  bowels. — To  this  horrid  tragedy  Gray  alludes  in  his 
celebrated  Welch  Ode  .- 

"  Hark  to  the  fhricks,  through  Berkley's  Tow'rs  that  ring, 
"  Shrieks  of  an  agonizing  King. 

lie  very  properly  and  poetically  calls  Ifabella, 

"  She-Wolf  of  France." 


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(Alas!   that  iccptre  he  could  not  fuftain, 

That  crown,  too  pond'rous,  hurt  his  feeble  brain.) 

Vet  ftill  his  faults  o'erbalanc'd  by  his  woes, 

His  fate  we  pity,  and  detett  his  foes. 

By  infult  goaded,  till  thofe  foes  were  tir'd, 

At  length,  in  agony,  the  wretch  expir'd. 

Still  be  thy  name,  O  Isabel,  abhor'd, 

Thou  bale  adult'rous  murd'rcr  of  thy  lord  ! 

Ah  !  fee  that  mould'ring  hall !  ronown'd  of  yore, 
For  rofy  revels  and  convivial  roar! 
Plenty,  which  none  but  Princes  cou'd  afford, 
Enormous  plenty,  fmoak'd  upon  the  board. 
Compar'd  with  this  how  fneakingly  wc  dine  ! 
How  poor,  how  puny  is  our  fam'd  firloin  ! 
Quarters  of  oxen,  moieties  of  fheep, 
Wafh'd  down  with  large  potations,  ftrong  and  deep, 
Strike  our  degcn'rate  guttlers  with  amaze, 
Vet  form'd  the  boa  ft  of  thofe  heroic  days. 
rho'  coarfe  the  joke,  "  the  merry  beards  wagg'd  all, 
\nd  peals  of  laughter  (hook  the  vaulted  hall. 


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The  Minftrel's  carol,*  while,  -it  every  pa ule, 
The  woods  and  lake  re-echo  hoarfe  applaufe. 


*  We  do  not  meet  with  the  term  Minftrel  until  after  the  Norman  Conqueft, 
This   order  of  men  fucceeded  the  antient  bards,  and  retained  many  of  the 
honours  fhewn  to  their  illuftrious  predeceffors,  who,  according  to  Offian,  fang 
the  "  battles    of  heroes,   and    the  heaving  breads  of  love."     The  following 
curious  defcription  is  given  of  the  Minftrel  who  entertained  Queen  P'lizabeth 
in  this  Caftle ; — "  A  perfon  very  meet  for  the  purpofe,  of  about  forty-five 
years  old,  his  cap  off,  his  head  feemingly  rounded  tonfterwife,  fair  kembed : 
that,  with  a  fponge  daintily  dipt  in  a  little  capon's  greafe,  was  finely  fmoothed 
to  make  it  fhine  like  a  mallard's  wing ;    his  beard  fmugly  (haven ;  and  his  fhirt, 
after  the  new  trink,  with  ruffs  fair  ftarched,  flecked,  and  gliftening  like  a  pair 
of  new  fhoes,  marfhalled  in  good  order  with  a  fetting  ftick,  and  ftrut,  that 
every  ruff  flood  up  like  a  wafer ;    a  fide  (/.  c.  a  long)  gown  of  Kendal  Green, 
gathered  at  the  neck  with  a  narrow  gorget,   fattened  afore  with  a  white  clafp, 
and  a  keeper  clofe   up  to  the  chin.     Seemingly  begirt  in  a  red  caddis  girdle  ; 
from  that  a  pair  of  capped  Sheffield  knives  hanging  a'  two  fides  ;  his  gown  had 
fide  (/.  e  long)  fleeves  down  to  mid-leg,  flit  from  the  moulder  to  the  hand,  and 
lined  with  white  cotton  ;  his  doublet  fleeves  of  black  worded,  upon  them  a  pair 
of  points  of  tawney  camlet,  laced  along  the  wrill  with  biue  threaden  points ; 
a  wealt  towards  the  hands  of  fuftian-a.napcs  ;  a  pair  of  red  nether  focks  ;  a  pair' 
of  pumps  on  his  feet,    with  a  crofs  cut  at  his  toes  for  corns,   not  new  indeed, 
yet  cleanly  blackt  with  foot   and  fhining  as  a   (hoeing  horn;  about  his  neck  a 
red  ribband,   fuitable  to  his  girdle  ;    his  harp  in  good  grace,  dependent  before 
him;    his    wreft   tyed  to  a  green   lace,  and  hanging  by;    under  the  gorge! 
of  his  gown,  a  fair  flaggon.  chain,  pewter  for  filver;  as  a  Squire  Minftrel  of 
Middlefex. 


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The  cattle  bell,  with  hofpitablc  found, 

Daily  invites  the  neighbourhood  around, 

To  noble  Grangers,*  journeying  from  afar, 

The  furly  porter  fmiles,  the  pond'rous  gates  unbai 

And  hark  !  what  (bouts  of  revelry  abound, 
Float  on  the  lake,  and  thro'  the  groves  refound  ! 
Unnumber'd  pageants  crowd  upon  the  eve. 
Attention  wanders  in  a  maze  of  joy. 
The  trumpet's  clangor. f  and  the  torchs'  blaze. 
Set  all  the  flutt'ring  courtiers  on  a  gaze. 


*  The  arts  of  a  refined,  fequeftered  luxury,  -was  then  unknown  ;  and,  befiJes 
this  fort  of  hofpitality,  there  was  another,  ftill  more  noble  and  difinterefted 
which  diftinguifhed  the  early  times,  cfpecially  the  purer  ages  of  chivalry :  it 
was  cuftomary,  according  to  Dr.  Hurd,  in  his  "  Moral  and  Poetical  Dialogues," 
for  the  great  Lords  to  fix  up  helmets  on  the  roofs  and  battlements  of  their 
caftles,  as  a  figrul  of  hofpitality  to  all  adventurers  and  noble  paffengers. 

f  This  alludes  to  the  fanciful  and  magnificent  entertainments  given  to 
Queen  Elizabeth,  and  her  whole  Court,  by  her  favourite  Earl  of  Leiccfter,  and 
which  continued,  with  intercfting  variety,  for  fouiteen  d.iys. 

•'•  Mx  trumpetours  flood   upon  the   w:.I:   of  the  g:te  too  found  a  tune  cf 
welcome,  every  one  an  eight   \jj'  hye,  ill  m  iong  garments  of  filk  fuita't 
*:• 'h  with  his  Uivcry  t'.umo"'  of  a  five  i  >ot  :.o">r  "—Abcie  n;r.:\,r;J  L:'.'c- , 


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Beauty  and  Fafhion,  in  their  belt  attire, 
The  lake  all  peopled,  and  the  ikies  on  fire  ; 
The  martial  tournaments,  the  gorgeous  dance, 
Bring  fiction  home,  and  realife  romance. 
The  Gods  themfelves  are  actors  in  the  fcene, 
And  Goddefies  acknowledge  Albion's  Queen. 
Nereids,  in  fea-green  vefl,  in  homage  bow, 
Their  wrinkled  (hells  the  mimic  Tritons  blow ; 
The  Dolphin  gambols,  and  Anon*  plays, 
The  lake,  in  rapture,  quiv'ring  to  his  lays. 
The  rofy  Bacchus,  flufn'd  with  grace  divine, 
Prefents  his  cluft'ring  grapes  and  fparkling  wine 


u  In  the  midft  of  the  pool  was  a  rnoovcable  ifland,  bright  blazing  with 
torches.  There  was  abrode  fundry  kindez  of  ficr  works,  compel'd,  by 
cunning,  to  fly  too  and  froo,  mount  very  hye,  and  alfo  to  burn  ur.quenfhabk 
in  the  water." — The  fame. 

*  "  A rion  riding  aloft  upon  his  old  friend  the  dolphin,  that  from  hed  t© 
tayl  waz  a  foour  and  twenty  foot  long,  began  a  delectable  ditty,  well  adapted 
to  a  melodious  noi/,  compounded  of  fix  fevcral  inftruments,  all  covert, 
calling  found  from  the  dolphin's  belly,  Arion  fitting  thus  ringing  without.''— 

,?..-«  LetW. 


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Sylvanus  offers  his  wild  flutt'ring  fowls, 
Pomona,  golden  fruit  in  filver  bowls: 
Ceres  prefents  her  flieaves  of  1  carded  grain, 
Neptune,  the  finny  tenants  of  the  main. 
Appollo,  grae'd  with  lutes  ami  harps,  appears, 
And  courteous  Mars  extends  hi  ■•  glitt 'ring  fhields  an  i 
1  pears. 

Young  Knights,  the  flow'r  of  Chivalry,  advance 
rhelr  mettled  (reeds,  and  couch  the  quiv'ring  lance  : 
While  Tome,  the  hardiell  of  the  vulgar  throng, 
Tilt  at  a  pony:  and  tumbling,  fprawl  along. 


'  This   ciiverlion    was    culled   "  running  at    the    Quintyn,*'    which    was 

d  by  "  a  br.de-a'e."'     "  After  tlie  bridegroom  had  his  coois,  ran  the 

re  it   ill  lam  oiuer;  but  foon  after  tag  and  rag,  cut  and  long  tail,  where  the 

fpecialty  of  the  fport  was,  to  fee  how  fome,  for  his  llacknefs,  had  a  good  bob 

with  the  bag;    and  fome,  for  his  hafte,   too  topple    down  right    and   cam 

tumbling  to  the  poft." — Runningat  the  Quintin  was  a  ludicrous  kind  of  tilting, 

performed  in  the  following  manner:  A  polt,  as  huh  as  a  man  on  liorfeback, 

'    ipright  in  the  ground,  with  an  iron  pivot  on  the  top,  on  which,  turned 

j   long  horizontal  beam,   unequally  divided.     To  the  upright   poll  was  fixed 

.;■'  lij'.hc  of  a  man,  tlie  horizontal   beam  reprcfentin~  his  arms ;  the  (h   :te:i 

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And  now,  refponfive  to  the  tabor's  found, 
The  antic  morrice,*  jingling,  beats  the  ground. 
Nor  did  her  Virgin  Highness  fcorn  to  view, 
Ban-dogs  and  bearsf  their  old  difputes  renew; 


end  had  a  target  nearly  covering  the  whole  body,  with  a  hole  in  the  fhape  of 
a  heart,  on  a  ring  cut  in  the  middle  of  it;  and  the  longed  was  armed  with  a 
wooden  fvvord  or  a  bag  of  fand.  Peafants,  mounted  on  cart  horfes,  ran  full 
tilt  at  this  figure,  and  endeavoured  to  ftrike  the  heart  with  a  pole,  made  like  a 
lance:  if  they  fucceeded,  they  were  greatly  applauded;  but  if  they  ft  ruck  the 
fhield  inftead  of  the  heart,  the  fhort  arm  of  the  lever  retiring,  brought  round 
the  wooden  fword,  or  the  fand  bag,  with  fuch  velocity  as  generally  to  unhorfe 
the  awkward  alTailants. 

*  **  A  lively  morifdauns,  according  to  the  auntient  manner,  fix  daunccrz, 
mawdmarion,  and  the  fool." 

j  This  diverfion  is  very  graphically  defcribed  in  the  above  letter .-  "  On  the 
fixth  day  of  her  Majefty's  cumming,  a  great  fort  of  ban-dogs  wear  tyed  in  the 
utter  court,  and  thirteen  bearz  in  the  inner;  it  waz  a  fport  veryplezaunt  to  fee, 
the  bear,  with  his  pink  nyez,  leering  after  his  enem'ez  approach,  the  nimble- 
nefs  and  wait  of  the  dog  to  take  his  advantage,  and  the  force  and  experiens  of 
the  bear  agiyn  to  avoid  the  alTaults ;  if  he  were  bitten  in  one  place,  hoow  he 
would  pynch  in  anoother,  to  get  free ;  that  if  he  wear  taken  onez,  then  what 
fhyft,  with  byting  and  clawing,  with  roring,  tofiing  and  tumbling,  he  would 
woork  to  wynd  himfelf  from  them  ;  and  when  he  was  'ofe,  to  make  his  earz, 
twyfe  or  thrys,  wyth  the  blud,  and  the  flavcr  about  his  fiznamy,  was  a  matte; 
ot  goodlie  relief.'- 


Our  ancient  beaux  enjoy  the  funny  fight, 
Forget  their  gravity,  and  laugh  outright; 
Nobles  and  bumpkins  join  in  one  loud  roar- 
But  ah!  the  reign  of  revelry  is  o'er: 
The  fcene  of  fplendour  like  a  day-dream  flies, 
And  deep'ning  (hades  of  melancholy  rife. 
The  dreadful  whirl  of  fate  my  foul  appalls, 
Methinks,  within  yon  lacerated  walls, 
Departed  grandeur's  penfive  ghofl  I  view; 
Time-batter'd  tow'rs,*  and  moffy  piles  adieu! 


Again — "  When  the  bearz  wear  brought  foorth,  the  dogs  fet  too  them  ton 
..rgue  the  points  even  face  to  face  ;  they  had  'earned  C:unfel  a  both  parts  :  if  the 
dog,  in  pleading,  would  pluk  the  bear  by  the  throte,  the  bear,  with  travers, 
would  claw  him  on  the  fcalp. 

Butler  feems  to  have  adopted  this  idea  in  his  Hudibras,  when  h«  talks  cf 
••  the  plaintiifdog,  and  bear  defendant,''  Jcc. 

Such  were  the  royal  amufements  in  the  '•'  golden  days"  of  the  great 
Elizabeth ! ! 

*  Though  the  Poem  concludes  with  an  air  of  poetical  melancholy,  infpircd 
by  a  comparifon  of  the  prefent  Ante  of  the  fabric  with  its  priftine  magnificence ; 
yet  the  ruins,  in  fpite  of  the  great  havoc  made  by  time,  and  the  (till  greater  by 
-v-irice,  exhibit  an  appearance  pleaiing,  though  awful,  and  though  Chattered, 


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Alas!  your  tenants  now  are  inmates  foul, 
There  flits  the  bat,  and  mopes  the  moufing  owl; 


picturefque.  You  enter,  from  the  north,  by  the  fide  of  the  great  gate  houfe, 
now  ufed  as  afarmboufe.  The  wall  and  ditch  formerly  joined  it,  and  the 
entrance  then  was  under  an  arched  way,  between  four  turrets,  which,  on  its 
being  made  a  habitation  was  walled  up,  and  converted  into  two  large  rooms. 
One  of  thefe  rooms  is  decorated  with  an  elegant  chimney  piece,  and  oak 
wainfcot,  taken  from  Leicefter  Buildings,  and  well  worthy  of  the  ftranger's 
attention.  The  large  pile  of  buildings  on  the  right  hand  (abfurdly  called 
Cxfar's  Tower)  is  the  ftrongeft  and  raofl  antient  part  of  the  caftle.  Three 
fides,  over-grown  with  ivy,  are  now  entire,  the  fourth  having  been  demolished 
by  Oliver  Cromwell's  foldiers.  The  three  kitchens  lie  beyond  it,  nearly  up 
to  Leicefter  Buildings.  Thefe  were  very  fpacious ;  but  now  fome  traces  of 
foundations  on  the  green  fward  only  ferve  to  mew  their  fituation.  Leicefter 
Buildings  come  next. 

They  were  very  ftrong;  the  three  ranges  of  arches,  one  over  another,  are  ftill 
to  be  feen.  Over  thefe  you  may  climb  to  the  top  of  the  wall,  from  whence  you 
have  a  fine  view  of  the  country.  What  a  glorious  fcene  this  mult  have  been 
when  the  vallies,  on  either  hand,  were  filled  with  the  tranfparent  waters  of 
the  lake,  furrounded  with  a  beautiful  variety  of  pleafure  grounds  laid  out  in 
lawns  and  woods. 

In  coming  clown  again,  you  have  the  remains  of  the  great  hall  on  your  right 
hand,  a  noble  room,  eighty-fix  feet  long  by  forty-five  feet  wide,  well  adapted 
to  the  hofpitable  clays  of  our  forefathers.  Underneath  was  a  room  of  the  fame 
dimenfions  for  domeftics,  and  the  fecond  clafs  of  viiitors.  A  flight  of  ftone 
fteps  from  the  court,  over  an  arch  ftill  remaining,  formed  the  grand  approach 
to  the  hail,  through  a  noble  Gothic  gateway,  very  curioufly  ornamented,  with 


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There,  on  his  couch  of  weeds,  pale  horror  reigns, 
Triumphant  matter  of  thefe  drear  domains: 
There,  low  in  dufr,  the  fmokelefs  kitchen  lies, 
And  round  the  rooflefs  hall  the  fhiv'rins;  ivy  fiidis. 


twining  vine  and  oak  leaves,  interchangeably  wrought  in  ftone,  up  the  flutings 
of  the  arch.  The  beauties  of  the  carved  foliage  challenge  the  admiration  of  the 
artift.  You  now  come  to  the  range  of  apartments  that  formed  the  fouth  fide 
cf  the  inner  court,  confifting  of  the  White  Hall,  the  Prcfence  Chamber,  and 
tiie  Privy  Chamber,  of  which  there  is  nothing  remaining  but  the  fragments  of 
walls  and  ilair  cafes,  and  part  of  two  large  bow  windows.  LeiceAer  Buildings, 
though  the  laft  erected,  fcem  likely  to  fall  the  fooneft  into  total  decay.  This 
fabric  has  been  robbed  of  vail  quantities  of  materials  for  repairing  roads,  Sec. 
and  to  the  benevolent  attention  of  the  late  Earl  of  Clarendon  we  owe  what 
now  remains. 

The  fpot  from  whence  the  caftle  appears  to  the  bell  advantage,  is  on  the 
road  from  Ilonily  to  Warwick,  where  it  is  feen  in  the  midft  of  a  noble  wood, 

and  appears    "  befom'd  high  in  tufted  trees." N.  B.  Six  Views  of  theft 

interefting  ruins,  executed  in  Aqua  Tint,  by  the  beft  Artifts,  are  intended  to  br 
'omc  time  publifbed  by  W,v.  Sawvfr.  provided  due  encouragement  is  give-:. 


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SUNDAY  SCHOOLS. 

1. 

U  BRING  little  children  unto  me," 
The  God  of  our  Salvation  cries: 

The  good  and  wife  obey  the  call, 
And  lay  up  treafures  in  the  Ikies. 

2. 
Oft  have  I  feen,  with  penfivc  eye, 

Children,  in  groups,  our  ftreets  difgrace 
Expos'd  to  infamy  and  vice, 

With  fhamelefs,  yet  with  ruddy  face. 

3. 
Along  the  fields,  along  the  lanes, 

Rambled  the  giddy,  giggling  throng, 
Eager  to  ftrip  the  flow'ring  thorn, 

Or  rob  the  poor  bird  of  its  young. 


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4. 
No  fears  had  they  of  Gop  above, 

No  rev'rence  for  the  fabbath  Day; 
But  thought  thofe  hallow'd  hours  were  meant 
For  nought  but  frolic  —  nought  but  play. 

5. 
For  play  and  mifchief :  out  they  flew, 

The  plague  of  many  an  honed  clown, 
Who,  mutt'ring,  mourn'd  his  broken  fence, 

And  clover'd  meadow  trampled  down, 

6. 
Their  toil-worn  parents  fore  diftreft 

To  feed  and  clothe  each  lucklefs  child 

No  fchooling  cou'd  afFord  ;  their  minds 

Were  like  the  weedy  garden  wild. 

7. 

No  hounds  their  infolence  retrain, 
No  check  the  little  urchins  know; 

None,  fave  the  beadles  lifted  ftaff, 
Or  Hern  church-warden's  angry  brow. 


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8. 
Compaffion  bled  at  every  pore, 

To  hear  their  rude  noife  rend  the  Iky : 

Oh!  have  not  thefe  immortal  fouls? 

For  thefe  did  not  a  Saviour  die? 

9. 
Celeftial  Charity  advanc'd, 

Inftant  their  idle  clamour  ceas'd ; 
Smiling,  (he  feiz'd  each  vagrant's  hand, 

And  led  them  to  the  "  paths  of  peace." 

10. 
How  chang'd  the  fcene!  in  decent  garb, 

With  fober  ftep,  and  ferious  air, 
Obfequious  to  their  tutor's  voice, 

To  church  the  cherub-train  repair. 

11. 
The  pow'r  of  difcipline  has  check'd 

The  wild-fire  of  impetuous  youth  j 
And  heav'n-t aught  Charity  difclos'd 

The  facred  Oracles  of  Truth. 


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12. 

What  joy  to  view  the  infant  tribes, 

With  eyes  that  gliften,  cheeks  that  glow, 

Fix'd  fteady  on  their  bible-talks, 

Or  hamm'ring  out  the  chrifs-crofs  row! 

13. 

Ye  more  than  parents  of  the  poor, 

How  great,  how  god-like  is  your  plan! 
To  fnatch  from  fire  the  "  flamimi  brand," 
And  hew  the  rougli  block  into  man. 

]  1 . 

And  oil!  'twill  foothe  the  hours  of  pain, 

And  brighten  your  declining  days, 
That  ye  have  taught  the  poor,  forlorn, 
To  know  their  God,  and  hymn  his  praife. 


I  am  favoured  with  the  following  note  upon  this  fuhjecl  by  the  Rev.  Mr 
Bux.v,  of  Birmingham,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  of  Sunday  Schools  intiut 
[own;  a  gentleman  equally  difiineuifhedfor  ."?-\  and  ability,  for  fervid  pirtv-, 
,  ,.;  imprcilive  eloquence 

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SUNDAY  SCHOOLS. 

The  interefts  of  fociety,  and  thofe  of  public  morals,  are  fo 
infeparably  conne&ed,  not  only  in  the  plan  of  Providence,  but,  in 
fact,  whatever  contributes  to  reftore  and  ftrengthen  the  latter  has  a 
fair  and  juft  claim  on  public  protection  and  public  gratitude.  That 
Sunday  Schools  poflefs  this  claim  will  fcarccly  now  be  difputed, 
except  by  the  few  who,  overlooking  the  evidence  of  facts,  allow  them- 
felves  to  be  impofed  on  by  the  maxims  of  an  illiberal  and  churlifh 
policy.  It  was  referved  for  thefe  Inftitutions  alone  to  embrace  and 
to  provide  for  an  extent  of  religious  and  moral  wrctchednefs,  which 
no  other  exilting  Eftablifhments,  however  excellent,  could  reach. 
By  impreffing  an  early  reverence  for  the  fabbath,  and  its  facred 
appointments,  by  inculcating  the  firft  and  effential  principles  of 
Chriftian  doctrine  and  morals,  a  foundation  is  laid  for  perfonal 
happinefs  ;  and  the  Divine  principles  which  may  thus  be  expected 
to  govern  the  individual,  in  the  more  retired  acts  of  perfonal 
devotion,  will  gradually  blend  and  diffufe  their  falutary  influence 
through  the  various  and  intcrefting  combinations  of  relative,  focial, 
and  public  duty.  The  favage,  refractory,  and  felfifh  paffions,  will 
bend  to  the  gentle,  liberal,  and  benevolent  fway  of  Chriftian  love  ; 
and  the  numerous  victims  of  ignorance  and  vice  thus  refcued,  inftcaJ 
of  growing  up  the  plunderers  and  the  pefts  of  fociety,  will,  with 
God's  bleffing,  become  its  riches  and  itsftrength.  If  fuch,  then,  be 
the  object  of  Sunday  Schools,  the  original  projeclors  of  this  noble 
defign  will  deferve  to  rank,  with  the  brightefl  ornaments  of  Britifh 
vifdom  and  Britifn  philanthropy  ' 


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O;/  /£<?  prefcnt  fajhionable  Female  DreJJes, 

[Written  at  th«  clofe  of  the  laft  year.] 


:se«»»is<: 


1. 

r  ii  * 

1  HE  muflin  garb,  in  which  the  fair 

Are  pleas'd  to  take  the  winter  air, 
Has  all  th*  appearance  of  a  uoinding-jheet : 

So  thin  the  gown,  and  drawn  fo  tight, 

It  puts  me  in  a  perfect  fright, 
Like  Marg'ret's  ghoft  that  flood  at  William's  feet. 

2. 

'Tis  faid,  the  British*  dames  of  old, 

Dames  of  an  amazonian  mould, 
Inftead  of  garments  wore  a  daub  of  paint: 

Like  them  our  modern  belles  difcover, 

A  iirange  averfion  to  all  cover, 
And  lay  on  rouge  enough  to  vex  a  faint! 


•  Ilhlorians  inform  us,  that  the  anticnt  Briton';  went  naked,  and  painted 
their  bodies  with  won  J.  Frum  this  circumftancc  they  are  flippofed  to  have 
derived  their  name,  the  word  brif,  in  the  Celtic  language,  fortifying  faintcJ- 


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3. 

Sure  'twas  fome  high-bred  Cyprian*  fair 
Contriv'd  this  mode  of  going  bare, 


In  all  probability  this  hardy  race,  like  many  of  the  wild  American  tribes  at 
prefent,  adopted  this  cuftom  with  a  view  to  ftrike  terror  into  their  enemies ; 
and  the  artlefs  beauties  of  thofe  days  had  recourfc  to  pigments,  for  the  double 
purpofe  of  looking  handfome  in  the  eyes  of  their  favage  admirers,  and 
preferring  their  expofed  bodies  from  the  effects  of  cold.  But  our  modern 
belles,  in  plaiitering  their  necks  and  faces,  have  no  title  to  this  apology* 
Befides,  modern  cofmetics  are  proved  to  be  fo  very  pernicious,  that  many  a 
iilly  girl,  in  attempting  to  attract  the  eyes  of  others,  has  loft  her  own  .  Paris 
•zvbket  fo  much  in  vogue,  is  made  of  bifmuth  dilTolved  in  the  nitrous  acid,  and 
muft,  of  courfe,  be  highly  corrofive  and  injurious.  The  French  ladies  may 
have  fome  excufe  for  difguifing  their  tawny  fkins  by  artificial  application; 
but  the  complexion  of  my  fair  countrywomen  needs  not  fuch  dangerous 
auxiliaries.  Mere,  at  leaft,  "  God  never  made  his  work  for  man  to  mend." — 
Banifh,  ladies,  Ibefeechyou,  from  your  toilettes,  theboafted  "  Milk  of  Rofcs," 
and  "  Olympian  Dew."  Poifons  lurk  in  fine-founding  epithets.  Remember, 
that  whoever  in  this  ifland  of  native  beauty,  puts  on  fuch  hypocrify  of 
countenance,  and  attempts  to  deceive  by  hijiing  falfe  ce/curs,  deferves,  and  will 
experience,  perfect  detection  and  contempt,  unmingled  with  the  flightcft 
pity  for  lofs  of  beauty  or  even  lofs  of  health. 

-  This  ludicrous  thinnefs  of  drefs,  fo  near  akin  to  nudity,  is  certainly  in  the 
higheft  degree  meretricious.  I  am  informed  by  a  claffical  friend,  that  a  iimilar 
faaiion  prevailed  among  the  Impuret,  of  antient  Rome,  whofe  vcftments  weie 
thin,  even  to  tranfparency,  and  were  aptly  denominated    "  ventus  textilli-;," 


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For  drefs  I  cannot  fuch  poor  cov'ring  call ; 
I  care  not,  girls,  one  fingle  pin, 
What  clothes  ye  wrap  your  beauties  in, 

Provided,  mark  me,  ye  are  cloth 'd  at  all! 

4. 
Your  grandmothers,  both  maids  and  wive< 
Wore  petticoats  by  fours  and  fives, 

Whole  loads  of  drap'ry  did  their  limbs  infold; 
They  ftrove  to  keep  the  ague  off, 
While,  Lard,  ye  care  not  for  a  cough, 

But  laugh  at  the  whole  family  of  cold, 

5. 

Confumptions*  fweep  ye  off  by  dozens, 
And  yet,  my  pretty  carelefs  couhns, 


*  I  believe  it  is  agtecd  among  phyficians,  that  cold  is  the  chief  predilpoih.i 
caufc  of  confumptions,  which,  as  Ihaveeifewhereobferved,deftroy  one-fou:f: 
and  in  bad  years,  one-third  of  all  that  die  within  the  bills  of  mentality.  Nothing 
is  fo  likely  to  generate  colds  as  fuch  prcpoitcrous  fiimfinefs  of  drefs,  particularly 
in  the  winter  feafon,  "  when  wind  and  rain  beat  dark  December;"  and.  to 
add  to  the  mifchicf,  the  prevailing  colour  is  ivblte,  which  is  proved  by  variou' 
philofophical  experiments,  to  be,  of  all  others,  t'.u:  leaft  capable  of  prefer  vine, 
the  warmth  of  the  human  frame.  Ladies,  I  beiW  ch  v.-.u  ..iiii  ;:■••!  i:ain,  t; 
ponder  in  your,  hearts  "  thefe  imp  t  mt  •■:,:,':\  •  " 


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Danger  and  death  ye  ftill  delight  to  dafh  on ; 

But  what  is  health,  or  what  is  eafe, 

Or  decency,  or — what  you  pleafe, 
Compared  with  that  bewitching  thing  call'd  Fafhion? 

6. 
Your  robes  of  fnow,  and  eyes  of  glee, 

Afford  the  ftrangeft  fimile 
Of  laughing  May  difguis'd  like  winter  hoar ; 

Each  female,  as  (he  walks  the  ftreet, 

Seems  doing  penance  in  a  fheet, 
Each  milk-white  nymph  reminds  me  of  Jane  Shore. 

7. 

Ladies,  'tis  thought  by  all  beholders, 

Ye  wear  your  heads  beneath  your  moulders,  * 
Thus  to  disfigure  and  expofe  your  bodies : 

The  men  are  laughing  in  their  fleeve, 

And  none  but  boobies  can  believe 
A  painted  doll,  half  naked,  is  a  goddefs. 

*  That  is,  the  ladies'  brains  are  difplaced  by  the  daemon  of  folly.  We  read 
fomewhere  of  a  fabulous  r2ce  of  mortals,  -who  carried  their  heads  beneath  their 
fhoulders. 


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8. 
The  Pope,*  of  Chriftian  choler  full, 

Has  publim'd  a  tremendous  Bull, 
Oi'fueh  unchrifHan  vanity  to  ftrip  ye: 

Wifely,  the  good  old  man  explodes, 

Of  drefs  fuch  fin-provoking  modes, 
And,  were  ye  Catholics,  fweet  girls,  would  whip  ye< 

9. 

Ves,  fiuners,  were  it  now  your  doom 

To  live  within  the  reach  of  Rome, 
(lis  Holiness  would  tear  your  muflin  graces: 

His  ugly  beadles  would  not  fail 

To  lay  your  gentle  limbs  in  jail, 
Would  thump  you  well,   and  claw  your  pretty  faces. 


*  The  new  Pope,  Pius  VII.  has  launched  his  ecclcfiaftical  thunder  againft 
the  loofenefs  of  female  drefs.  To  this  diforder  he  attributes  all  the  evils  that 
lave  ajflifietl  Eur:j>e,  and  defreflld  tke  Cbuicb.  He  fays  "  The  eye  of  a  Chriftian 
can  no  where  turn  i  tie  if  without  encountering,  abafhed,  the  difplay  of 
feducUve  charms,  in  pubiic  and  in  private;  nay,  even  the  Temples  are 
profaneJ  i.y  ihefe  indecencies''  Sj<\   Bv  a  Bull  kt<  ly  publiihed,  he  endeavour'' 


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10. 

Old  mother  Eve,  we  all  allow, 
Went  naked,  with  majeflic  brow, 

No  harm  flie  knew,  and  therefore  knew  no  fhame 
Yes — fhe  in  innocence  was  dreft, 
Pure,  fpotlefs  virtue  was  her  vejly 

But,  are  our  Evi/b  females  quite  the  fame? 

11. 

Unnumber'd  groups  ye  daily  fee 

Half  naked  thro'  Necejfity, 
While  ye,  thro  Choice,  go  ihiv'ring  in  the  breeze: 

On  ragged  Want  and  real  Woe 

Your  cart-off  drapery  bellow, 
Then  be  as  much  in  Falhion  —  as  yc  pleafe. 


to  rcprefs  fuch  enormities  by  fines  and  corpokal  punishment  ! !  The  ladies 
in  this  country  may  congratulate  thcmfelves  on  belonging  to  the  reformed 
religion,  and  living  in  a  land  where  there  is  freedom  of  drefs,  as  well  23 
freedom  of  opinion. 


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►UulllOllUllix 


ELEGY  ON  MORTALITY. 


►OCX 


•  The  aggrejate  population  on  the  furface  of  the  known  habitable  globe,  is 
estimated  at  895,300,000  fouls:  if  we  reckon  with  the  antients,  that  a 
generation  lafts  30  years,  then  in  that  fpace  S95,3oo,ooo  human  beings 
will  be  born  and  die,  confequently  S  1,762  muft  be  dropping  into 
eternity  every  day,  3,407  every  hour,  or  about  56  every  minute  !"— So 
fays  the  great  and  good  Dr.  Watts;  but  according  to  Guthrie,  the 
mortality  is  ftill  greater :  he  reckons  the  inhabitants  of  the  terraqueous 
globe  at  933  millions;  of  courfe  87,0^2  expire  in  one  day,  3,626  in  one 
hour,  63  in  one  minute,  or  one  every  fecond. 


HEAR  this  dread  truth,  ye  giddy  and  ye  gay, 
Daughters  of  Faihion,  Sons  of  Riot,  hear  ! 

Can  ye  on  ruin's  flow'ry  margin  ftray, 

The  knell  of  thoufands  echoing  in  your  ear  ? 

While  Folly  celebrates  her  midnight  rout, 

Legions  emit  the  agonizing  figh  ; 
And  ere  the  drunkard's  frantic  bowl  is  out, 

Thoufand.s  of  fellow-beings  groan  and  die, 
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While  Phillis  counterfeits  health's  rofy  bloom, 
And  bids,  at  will,  her  borrow'd  blufhes  glow, 

Unnumber'd  cheeks  Death's  pallid  tints  affume, 
Unnumber'd  beauties  are  in  duft  laid  low. 

Not  for  an  inftant  paufe  the  fhafts  of  death, 
Each  puny  moment  for  its  victim  calls: 

Fall'n  is  a  mortal  fince  I  took  my  breath, 
And,   ere  I  write,  another  victim  falls, 

From  every  fide  immenfe  deftruction  pours ; 

Volcanos  fpout,  and  earthquakes  rock  the  ground  ; 
Floods  overwhelm,   the  crackling  flame  devours, 

And  mad  tornados  fcatter  ruin  round. 

The  fcourge  of  God,  fell  peflilence,  prevail?, 

And  fweeps  uncounted  myriads  to  the  grave  : 
Ev'n  now  the  demon  rides  the  weftcrn  gales, 
Beyond  the  roar  of  the  Atlantic  wave. 


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in  Philadelphia's  fpacious  ftreets,  the  found 
Of  Trade  is  dumb,  her  Sons  of  Wealth  are  fled ; 

And  nought  is  heard,  fave  dying  groans  around, 
Or  midnight  cars  flow  rumbling  with  their  dead. 

Via? !  of  maladies,  a  ghaftly  train 

Againft  our  youth,  againft  our  age,  confpire; 
But  moil  I  mourn  Britannia's  fpreading  bane, 

The  flufhing  Hectic's*  flow  confuming  fire. 


*  By  He&ic  it  is  evident  the  lair  Author  here  means  Pulmonary  Phthisis, 
vulgarly  called  Confumption  ;  for  though  the  Hectic  Fever  accompanies  fomc 
other  diforders,  the  addition  of  "  flow  confuming  fire"  not  only  afcertains  the 
meaning,  hut  is  by  no  means  an  inelegant  peripbrajis  of  the  above-mentioned 
difeafe.  It  is  not  without  reafon  this  cruel  malady  has  been  feledtcd  as  a 
theme  of  elegiac  complaint:  ninny  other  difcafes  arc  induced  by  folly,  intem- 
perance, or  vice;  but  this  makes  its  devastations  among  the  young  and  the 
innocent,  the  beautiful  and  the  blamclefs.  Well  may  it  be  ftylcd  the 
"  Shame  of  Phyfic,"  the  "  Opprobrium  Mcdicorum"  for  its  increafe,  in  fpitc  of 
the  boafted  power  of  the  Digitalis,  is  truly  alarm  jag.  It  appears  from  Dr. 
Willan's  Obfervations,  (vid.  the  Medical  and  Phyfical  Journal,  p.  30J,)  that 
one  fourth,  and  in  very  unfavourable  fcafons, one  third,  of  all  the  deaths  m 
London,  according  to   'lie    Bills  of  Mortality,   is   caufcel  by   difcafes  of  the 


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Hectic,  the  fhame  of  phyfic,  parent's  fear, 

That  nips  the  buds  of  joy,  and  blafts  the  bloom  ; 

And  fteeps  the  couch  with  many  a  bitter  tear, 
For  youth  and  beauty  hurried  to  the  tomb. 

Yet  man,  alas!  the  deadlier!  foe  to  man, 
Murders  his  brethren  in  inhuman  fight ; 

To  wafte  creation  is  his  favage  plan, 
Havoc  his  glory,  Ruin  his  delight. 

O  ceafe,  in  mercy  ceafe,  the  fierce  affray  ! 

Nations,  no  longer  bathe  the  world  in  gore  ! 
Sick  are  the  vultures  of  their  human  prey, 

And  the  gorg'd  raven  croaks  for  blood  no  more. 


The  account  is  as  follows: — In  the  year  1796  there  died  of  pulmonic 
diforders,  5,910  out  of  jS,2j8 ;  in  1797,  5,439  out  of  1 6,714 ;  and  in  i~99» 
t  ,2 1  o  out  of  1  7,285. — Note  by  a  Medical  Friend. 


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To  me  life  feems  a  promontory  dark, 

Round  which  the  thunder- ftorms  incefiant  roll; 
The  fun  mines  dimly,  and  the  fprightly  lark 

Is  difcord  to  the  feelings  of  my  foul. 

Sad  fighs  the  vernal  gale  to  hearts  like  mine, 
The  faireft  forms  of  pleafure  ceafe  to  pleafe; 

I  fee  the  fun  on  human  groan?  decline, 

And  human  fighs  increafe  the  morning  breeze. 

Sure  man  is  born  (the  fad  reflection  fills 

My  heart  with  horror,  and  with  tears  my  eve) 

Diftempcr's  prey,  the  (port  of  endlefs  ills, 
In  fear  to  live,  in  agony  to  die, 

Oh  no!  replies  Religion's  feraph  voice, 
Her  radiant  finger  pointing  to  the  ikies  : 

Man  mourns  awhile,  for  ever  to  rejoice, 
He  yields  to  conquer,  and  he  falls  to  rife 


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No  longer,  then,  deplore  his  haplefs  doom, 
In  darknefs  deftin'd  for  awhile  to  flay, 

He  burfls  the  gloomy  portals  of  the  tomb, 

Claps  the  triumphant  wing,  and  tow'rs  away ! 


®W%f 


W 


;-*£«£> 


AN  ADDRESS 

To  Millers,  Badgers,  and  the  whole  Fraternity  of  Dealers  in  Corn  andFlc 
[Written  loon  after  the  pafling  the  Brew:'.  Bread  Aifts.] 


1. 

-tf  7 

L  E  miller.-,  and  vc  rogues  in  grain, 
Who  drive,  with  wicked  might  and  mail 

To  vrind  die  iaccs  of  the  noor  around  :z  ! 
Dealers  in  chaff  and  barley  hulk-,* 
Scarce  fit  to  greet  a  wild  boar's  tuik:, 

May  all  the  powrs  oi' villany  conl'jund  ve  ! 


"  Th:  Brown  Bread  Ait,  now  no  more,  was  framed  upon  humane,  but 
::  :  idicious  principles,  and  it  well  became  the  wifuom  of  the  Imperial  Parlia- 
ment to  put  a  fpcedy  end  to  its  exhtence.  I:.::;  been  filled  by  one  c:  the 
Members  of  the  Iloufe  of  Commons,  a  "  poifoning  act ;"  and,  loon  after  it 
was  paffed,  the  London  Cake;,,  complained,  that  the  Mliicrs,  ..  :  c  intent  w  i:h 
introducing  honeft  bran,  balderdafhccl  their  rl  lur  with  hufks  of  barley  an  J  oats, 
and  other  unwholefome  ingredients,  fo  as  to  threaten  abfolutc  perdition. 
C  >mpiaint3  were  founded  in  th  ■  fame  key  from  various  parts  of  the  ecu-try- 
Peace    to  the  manes  of  this  unfortun  ? ' u\    < -".■■  next  erTott  ■•/ 

I  nvov-  mur,     >:■•■    '  f  1 


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2. 
We  know  ye  well  from  antient  tfory, 
To  filch  and  gripe  is  all  your  glory, 
Tho'  fatire  prick  you  with  her  fharpefl  rowels ; 
A  year  of  plenty  gives  ye  pain, 
Famine,  to  you,  is  gladfome  gain, 
Hard  as  the  nether  millftone  are  your  bowels. 

o 
.■>. 

More  honeft  was  your  fathers'  plan, 
(But  foes  ye  always  were  to  man,) 

Some  u  learned  Clerk  of  Oxenford  "  to  choufe  :* 
'Twas  far  more  honeft,  let  me  tell  ye, 
Than  thus  to  rot  the  poor  man's  belly 

With  food  that's  iirinn'd  at  by  each  hungry  moufe. 


*  Their  knaveries,  and  particularly  their  dextrous  management  of  the  toll- 
difh,  have  given  birth  to  much  jocularity.  Chaucer,  and  other  antient  writers, 
tell  us  fome  pleafant  itories  of  Millers  and  young  Oxonians  trying  to  outwit 
e. ach  other ;  but  the  modern  Miller?  are  fo  much  improved,  that  they  infinitely 
exceed  both  our  learned  Univcrfitics  in  what  Lord  Bacon  calls  lt  crooked 
wifdom."  Indeed  they  have  far  greater  fcopc  for  genius ;  for  they  were  wifely 
prohibited  in  the  days  of  our  anceftors  from  being  corn-dealers,  upon  the  fame: 
principle  that  a  tanner  is  not  differed  to  be  a  cirrier. 


4. 
I'he  people's  agonizing  fighs, 

Their  flaring  bones,  their  hollow  eyes, 
Are  fure  enough  to  melt  a  heart  offtone; 

But  Pity,  cherub-born  to  feel, 

Ne'er  faw  the  infide  of  a  mill, 
Your  noify  clappers  drown  her  feeble  moan. 

5. 
The  great  folks  fill  me  with  furprize, 

(But  great  folks  are  not  always  wife,) 

To  fuffer  you  to  rob  with  fuch  impunity : 

To  fell,  without  reftraint,  your  train, 

Chopt  ftraw  and  bran  for  honeft  cam, 

To  poifon,  or  to  ftarve,  the  whole  community, 

6. 
Ye  worthy  framcrs  of  our  laws, 

In  mercy  pare  their  vulture  claws, 

Nor  let  the  blood-hounds  rend  their  helplefs  pre\ 

O  fave  from  monfters,  callous  grown 

Our  poor  remains  of  (kin  and  bone. 

And  your  petitioners  (hall  ever  prav 

k  2 


/ 1) 


And  oh  !   in  pity  to  the  poor, 

The  Badgers'*  fecret  haunts  explore, 

With  legal  terriers  hunt  the  fkulking  brood  : 
Their  tricks  detect,  their  dens  furprize, 
Where  corn,  in  mufty  mountains,  lies, 

And  rats  and  mice  grow  fat  with  human  food. 

8. 
Asainft  rich  rogues  that  talk  fo  big, 
O  Kenyon  !  make  thy  dreadful  wig, 


*  Though  the  prcfent  high  price  of  corn  may  be  owing  to  a  variety  of 
concurring  caufes,  yet  candour  herfelf  mufl  allow,  that  no  inconfiderable  part 
cf  the  calamity  is  attributable  to  the  juggling  of  this  crafty  race.  If  without 
their  medium  the  markets  cannot  be  regularly  fupplied  ;  if,  like  pawn-brokers, 
they  arc  to  be  confidercdas  ncceffary  evils,  like  them  they  fhould  be  fubjeclcd 
to  fome  fort  of  parliamentary  regulation.  I  have  been  told  that,  by  an  aft 
palled  in  the  reign  of  Edward  the  Sixth,  but  unfortunately  repealed,  all 
badgers  and  corn-dealers  were  obliged  to  be  licenfed  by  three  Jufiiccs  of  the 
Peace,  and  to  enter  into  recognizances  again  ft  forcflalling,  cngroffing,  &c.  The 
fa  (St  is,  they  are  a  fpecies  of  animals  that,  according  to  circumffances  and 
management,  may  cither  be  ufeful  cr  noxious :  if  fuffercd  t..  grow  too  numerc 
or  to  roam  without  reftraint,  they  become  public  nuif.nces,  ar.d  laagc:  bur.t-j:* 
v/il!  not  difgrace  our  graved  Scr.atois. 


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And  ilrikc  them  dumb  with  thy  tremendous  frown! 

Purfue,  moil  righteous  Judge,  purfue 

The  vile  monopolizing  crew, 
And  hallow'd  be  the  furs  that  fringe  thy  gown  ! 

9. 
Did  not  the  culprit  now  in  limbo, 
^\  ith  fancy  flare  and  arms-a-kimbo,* 

Prate  to  your  Lordfhip  and  your  learned  brothers? 
Freedom  of  trade  is  all  their  cant, 
But  what's  the  freedom  that  they  want? 

Whv — onlv  to  net  rich  bv  ftarvin^  others. 


*  Though    :i   poetical    licence    may   have   been  affumed  i'i  describing  the 

' fpc ft  an;!  attitude  of  Mr.  W — -,   the  gentleman   here    alluded    to,   yet    it 

is  ..  veritable  fact,  that  he  addreflfed  the  Court  of  King's  Bench  with  no  fmall 
degree  oi  auurancc  and  audacity;  sfiurancc  in  i. '■,'•■-  doivr.  tie  !jvj  to  thofe 
ver.t  ra;  i  Judge?,  and  .  ndacity  in  inlifling  that  they  had  no  right  to  inflict  a:  y 
other  than  a  it  minr.1  punifliment.     Poor  man  !    id?  intentions  w  re  innocent, 

•n    la;  lab!  ,   and   he  has  fallen  the   victim  of  thjf.*  m  :'•::•■       .    ; 

"•'.  '  •■:.•'.  :.   \hn\  m  Jir-p  >Iy  andyJ     .  .<-•'.• 


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10. 
Who  fays  our  aileeflors  were  wrong  heads  1 
Woeful  experience  proves  them  long  heads, 

In  corn  and  cattle  and  fuch  trifling  matters : 
'Tis  modeft,  truly,  to  defpiie, 
Their  wholefome  rules,  and  ftatutes  wife, 

And  tear  them,  like  old  almanacks,  to  tatters.* 

*  I  have  been  informed,  that  various  valuable  Acts  of  Parliament,  framed 
by  the  good  fenfe  of  our  forefathers,  againft  the  crying  fins  of  engroffing, 
forcftalling,  and  rcgrating,  were  repealed  at  one  ftrokc  in  the  12th  year  of 
his  prefent  Majefty ;  a  circumftance,  which  the  worthy  Lord  Kenyon  has 
more  than  once  molt  feelingly  lamented.  Though  this  great  Oracle  of  the 
Law  confeffes  his  inability  to  account  for  rafhly  repealing  ftatutes  of  approved 
utility,  I  may  be  permitted  to  conjecture,  that  it  originated  in  thofe  new- 
fangled principles  of  liberality,  which  are  more  talked  of  than  underftood. 
We  owe  fo  much  to  the  wifdom  of  our  anccftors,  that  it  is  vile  ingratitude, 
I  had  almoft  faid,  impiety,  to  treat  fo  irreverently  thefe  venerable,  elaborate 
monuments  of  their  wifdom.  It  requires  no  great  length  of  reafoning  to  prove, 
and  indeed  it  is  too  fatally  proved  by  experience,  that  it  is  highly  pernicious 
to  permit  an  unbounded  liberty  of  trade  in  the  neceffarics  of  life,  and  leave  the 
unprotected  poor  to  the  combinations  of  opulent  and  unprincipled  fpeculators. 
In  vain  may  the  God  of  Seafons  fend  plentiful  harvefts  :  unlefs  wc  revert  to 
the  policy  of  our  anccftors,  the  bounty  of  Providence  may  and  will  be  defeated 

by  the  machinations  of  man.     Let   not   gentlemen  of  Mr.  W 's  kidney 

complain  of  parliamentary  muzzles:  in  tendcrnefs  to  the  growling  lamentation? 
•f  the  noble  favages.  it  would  not  furely  be  wifdom  to  let  lool'c  the  wild  bolts 
i:sm  the  Tower. 


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11. 

The  plain  good  men  (God  reft  their  fouls) 
Never  fold  hops  upon  the  poles, 

Nor  kept,  till  mouldy,  hoards  of  precious  grain  ; 
Selling  by  famples  was  unknown, 
Their  jocund  teams,  to  market  town, 

Whittling,  they  drove  along  the  deep  cut  lane, 

12. 

Ye  care  not  how  the  people  fare  : 

Let  rag-a-muffins  feed  on  air, 
Get  drunk  with  tears,  and  fatten  on  their  groan- 

'Tis  true,  and  pity  'tis,  'tis  true, 

They  are  notflcft  and  blood,  like  you. 
But  loathfome,  defpicable,  bags  of  bone-. 

13. 
Farmers,  no  more  an  honeft  race. 

Loft  to  all  feeling,  loft  to  grace, 
In  this  fame  nafly  puddle  muft  be  ftirring '. 

Nor  wheatcn  bread,  nor  butchers'  meat, 

The  ions  of  poverty  muft  eat, 
But  thank  our  Parliament  for — pickled  herring- 


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14. 

Eternal  bleffings  wait  on  all, 

Who,  ftarting  at  pale  hunger's  call, 
With  Soup,  nutritious,  warm  the  poor  man's  heart! 

The  wife,  the  heav'n-direcled,  plan 

Baffles  the  villany  of  man, 
Baffles  the  winter's  rage,  the  badger's  art. 

15. 

Turkey,  where  pow'r  defpotic  reigns, 

(Avert  fuch  pow'r  from  Britifh  plains  !) 
Wou'd,  in  fuch  cafes,  act  with  defpot  fury  : 

Each  naughty  miller  wou'd  be  flak'd, 

Bakers  in  their  own  ovens  bak'd,* 
And  badgers  hang'd  without  a  judge  or  jury. 

*  The  Turks  puniili  knavery  in  bakers  with  peculiar  feverity.  It  is  faid, 
that  in  cafe  of  a  deficiency  in  weight,  they  are  hung  up  at  their  own  doou 
without  ceremony ;  and  that,  though  the  punifhment  is  fo  fevere,  it  is  no 
unufual  thing  for  people  walking  the  ftrcets  of  Conftantinoplc  to  encountei 
the  legs  of  culprits  fo  fufpended.  I  have  read  a  ftory  of  a  baker  being  thrown 
into  his  own  oven  by  order  of  a  Turkifh  Magistrate,  who,  being  rcmonftratcd 
with  for  the  apparent  cruelly  of  the  punifhment,  replied,  with  great  favgfroid. 
"  talk  not  of  cruelty  ;  it  is  a  good  policy,  for  I  trull  it  will  be  a  confiderabh 
time  before  we  (hall  have  occafion  to  bake  a  laker  again." 


Si 

\N   INVOCATION   TO  PEACE 

[Writ ten  in  March,  i':.-.;  ] 

v/  HEX  now  (he  rofy-bofoni'd  hours, 
J  hcirtrefles  bath'd  with  genial  fhow'rs, 
On  tiptoe  {land  to  paint  the  fl.nv'rs, 

Return,  bleft  Peaee,  return  ! 
Oh  !   may  the  gale,  whofe  tepid  wing 
Now  fans  the  blowing  crocus,  bring 
Thou,  fweet  companion  of  the  i'pring. 
And  friend  of  all  that  mourn  ! 

A  Northern  fiorm*  hangs  o'er  the  main, 
Plenty  ibrfakcs  the  rural  reign, 
And  Commerce  mourns  her  broken  chain, 
I  hat  bound  the  willing  world. 


*    I   i,    alludes  to  t'.i:  Northern  Confederacy.     It   is  ci  vovvt  ;    I 
what  fi:n"  r.  •  to  be  true,  that  it  may  dii'.ui        \  i'.h  t'. 

Che  Bait. c:    and  that.  b:ir.-T,  frozen  ir.t     ah  rit<    a  ruptuv: 


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Offspring  of  Heav'n  !  oppofe  thy  bar 
To  mad  ambition's  trophy'd  car, 
Strike  the  red  flag  of  horrid  war, 
By  thy  foft  fingers  furl'd  ! 

Purfuing  hope's  delufive  fpark, 

Long  have  we  tofs'd  in  tempefts  dark  ; 

O,  haften  to  our  fhatter'd  ark, 

Thou  olive-bearing  dove ! 
Silence,  ye  drums,  parading  round  ! 
Ye  martial  fifes,  forget  to  found  ! 
Hufh  all  ye  favage  notes,  that  wound 

The  ear  of  focial  love ! 

To  thee,  divineft  Peace,  belong 

The  fhepherd's  pipe,  the  milkmaid's  fong, 

The  ploughman's  whiffle,  loud  and  long, 

That  echoes  o'er  the.  plain  : 
And  thine  the  Poet's  warmer!:  lays, 
While,  pleas'd,  he  marks  the  lengthening  day 
The  building  rooks,  the  budding  fprays, 

And  blackbird's  mellow  ftrain. 


8  J 


ADDITIONAL  STANZAS, 

WRITTEN      ON      THE      GLORIOUS        VICTORY      NEAR 
COPENHAGEN,    APRIL     2t/,    1801. 

Intriguing  Kings  combine  in  vain, 
The  favage  Rues,  the  Swede,  the  Dane, 
Britannia  ftill  mall  rule  the  main, 

And  triumph  fwell  the  gale  : 
For  hark  !  on  Denmark's  (battered  fhores, 
The  thunder  of  the  battle  roars, 
And  Nelson,  VicTry's  darling,  pours 

The  norm  of  "  iron  Hail." 

From  Zembla  to  the  burning  Line, 
Still  to  thy  glory  nations  join, 
More  radiant  ftill  thy  virtues  fhine, 

Heroic  Queen  of  Isles  ! 
Thy  Warrior  o'er  the  proftrate  foe, 
Sufpends  the  dire  denroying  blow, 
And  while  the  fires  of  Vengeance  glow. 
Vngelic  Mercy  fmiles. 


84. 


Before  thy  Navy's  fiery  blalT, 
Old  Nile,  along  her  fandy  wafte, 
Trembled,  and  Egypt  flood  aghafi, 

Shudd'ring  with  new  alarms  : 
Aw'd  by  thy  pow'r,  humanely  brave, 
The  Baltic  rolls  an  humbler  wave, 
Yet  great  to  conquer,  great  to  fave, 

Repofe  upon  thy  arms. 

No  longer  let  thy  thunders  roll, 

From  South  to  North,   from  pole  to  pole 

Reftrain  thy  Warrior's  ardent  foul, 

And  bid  Definition  ceafe  ! 
O  let  our  bells  their  clamours  raile. 
Our  cannon  innocently  blaze, 
And  greet  once  more  our  grateful  gaze. 

With  lovely,  1  ailing  Peace  ! 


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Subfcribers  to  Mrs.  Sawyers  Poem 


A 


A 

DA.MS,Mifs,  Cakemorc,  near    Alkey,  Mr.  Birmingham 

Hales  Owen  Afpinall,  James,  Ditto 

\ddington,  Mi.  Afpinall,  Alexander,     Ditto 

Addimton,  Mis.  Aftbury,  M:s.  Ditto 

Allen,  Edward  Aftbury,  Mr.  Ditt  , 

Allen,  William,  Birmingham  Aftbury,  Thomas*         Ditto 

Alport,  James,  Afhted  Aftbury,  William,         Dittu 

Alfton,  James,  Birmingham  Athww,  Mr?.  London 

Anderton,  William,  Mofeley  Atwood,  Mrs. 

Andrew.-,  Thomas,  Briftol  Aynfvvorth,  Mifs,  Caftle  Bromwi 

Arden,  Mrs.  Sutton.  2  r  pics  Alton,  Samuel,  Birmingham 

•\i  titans,  Society  of,  Birmingham  Afton,  Thomar,     Ditto 


Baynes,  Stanhope,  M.  D.  Leeds  Belfleld,  John 

Baynes,  Mrs.     Ditto  Bclriehl,  William 

Bailey,  Mrs.  London  Bell,  Mrs.  Ravenhurft 

Bains,  Mrs.  Greenwich,  2  copies  Bellamy.  Mrs.  Birmingham 

Baker,  Samuel,  Birmingham  Bennett,  Mil';,  Coventry 

Baldwin,  William,  Ditto  Bernccker,    Conrad,    Birmingham, 

Baldwin.  Mifs,  Ditto  Letts  John,  Ditto 

Banbury,  Mifs,  Brandon  Letts,  William,  Ditto 

Barker, George, attorney. Birmingham   Bingham,  fames,  2  copies,  Seliyoa:< 

Barker,  Thomas  Springfield  Bifhtoa,  Mrs. 

Barn  ,  Mrs.  Lonii'>n  Bilhton,  William,  Efq.  1  copies,  Keif 

Bains,  Mifs,  Birmingham  Bilhton,  John,  Dittu 

Barn-,  the  Rev.  ,  Coventry  Blackham,  Mifs,  Birmingham 

Bar:  i\v,  Mrs.  Briftcl  Black-vll,  Mifs  LmiJ  ,11 

Bat-. heior,  T.  Ditto  Blak-m  >re, ,1k    mpton 

B.it  ■,  Brownlow,  Efq.  Birmiru'ham  Blair,  David,  Birmingham 

B.v,  i    v,  H.  T.  Ditt  1  Bl.ndy.  Adam,  Efq. 

P         v,  James,  Ditto  Blood,  Riehaid,  Birmingham,  2  :  r 

B.iyiis   M    •    Brillol  Blount,  T,.hn,  Surgeon,  Ditto 

B  aum.mt, ,  f.fj.  Blunt,  [e.f-.p'.i  Dirto 

1  >nt,  Mifs  B  elling,  M  Ditt  > 

Bo;      :  I,  '  ■  ;    f\    :vir,  Efq.  T.on  !  n  Book  Ci  1    .  LLrmin^harr,  4 

1-..1-  1:.!,  Wm.     t:   •    •■-.' :.-,.:  '.-ham   <]  >v. .  (,-  ■:    •,     Ditu 


Bouiton,  Matthew,  Efq.  Soho,  2  copies  Biunton,  Mr.  Ilagley 

Boulton,  Mifs,         Ditto  Buckle,  Mis.  London 

Bradihaw,  Mrs.  Coventry  Bund,  Cornet  25th  Light  Dragoon? 

Brailsford,  Mifs,  Crefcent,  Birmingh.  Bunney,  Jofeph,  Birmingham 

Brant,  Mrs.  London  Burchel,  Captain,  Afhted 

Bratt,  William,  Handfworth  Burge,  John,   Briftol 

Bree,  Robert,  M.  D.  Birmingham  Burn,  the  Rev.  Edward,  Birmingham 

Bridgrnan,  James,  Ditto  Burns, ,  Efq.  London 

Brock,  Mr.  Briftol  Burns,  Mrs.  Ditto 

Bromwich,  Mifs,  Ilagley  Buller,  Mr.  Birmingham 

Brooks,  the  Rev.  ,  Coventry     '  Blyth,  Samuel,  Birmingham 

Bruokihaw,  Mrs.  Handfworth  Blyth,  Rev.  Thomas,  Solihull 

Broom,  Samuel,  Kidderraiiilter  Mrs.  M.  and  D.  Butlers,  Kenilworth 
Broom,  T.  S.  Efq.  Woolelley  Bridge  2  copies 

Browr,  Mis.  London  Butler,  S.  Kenilworth,  4  copies 

Brown,  James,  Birmingham A  Friend       4  ditto 


c 

Chedworth,  Right  Hon.  Lord,  Ipfwich  Colmore,  Samuel,  Smallheath 

Cairns,  Edward,  Birmingham  Colmore,  Thomas,  Balfalheath 

Caliey,  George,        Ditto  Colmore,  Wm.  George,  Birmingham 

Calvett,  Captain,  Devon,  2  copies  Colquitt,  Captain,  London 

Capper,  Walter  Wm.Efq.  Birmingh.  Colquitt,  Mia.         Ditto 

Capper,  Mrs.  Ditto  Conqueft,  Richard,  Birmingham 

Cailefs,  Mrs.  Harborne  Conqueft,  Mrs.  Ditto 

Carmichae!,  John,M.D.  Birmingham  Conft, ,  Efq.  London 

Carver,  Lieutenant  Colonel,  2  copies  Conway,  Thomas,  Birmingham 

Chambers,  William,  Birmingham  Cook,  the  Rev.  FreeGiammar  School, 

Chance,  William,  Ditto  Birmingham 

Charley,  Mis.  Coventry  Cooper,  Mifs,  the  Crefcent,  Ditto 

Chefton,  Thomas,  Birmingham  Cooper,  Thomas,    Ditto 

CDrk,  Jof.  Efq.  Northampton,  2  cop.  Cooper,  Mr.  Henley 

Clark,  Charles,  Worcefter  Cope,  John,  Birmingham 

Clarke,  John,  Birmingham  Cope,  John,      Ditto 

Clarke,  John,  Paradife-ftreet,  Ditto  Cope,  John,  jun.  Ditto 

Clav,  Henry,  Efq.  Ditto  Cope,  Richard,  Ditto 

Clifie,  Waftel,  Efq.  Wellbromwich,  Cottell,  Mils 

2  copies  Cottell,  Mifs  Mary 

Coales,  Robert,  Efq.  Birmingham  Cottertll,  Clement,  Birmingham 

Collier,  Mrs.  London  Cotton,  Mifs,  Ecclelhall 

Collins,  William,  Efq.  Gieenwich  Covey,  William,  Surgeon,  Birmingham 

Collins,  Mrs.  Ditto  Crew,  R.  II.  Efq.  St.  Margaret-ftrce', 

Collins,   Charles,  Efq.   Gower-ftreet,  Weftminfter 

London  Croome,  Mifs,  Briftol 

Collins,  Mis.  Ditto  Crofs,  Charles,  Birmingham 

Collins,  Edward,  Greenwich  Croft,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Ditto 

Colmore,.  Mifs,  Camphill  Corrie,  Mrs.  Erdington 

Colmore,  John,  Camphill  Curtis,  Mis.  Solihull 


D 

0  .:  (mouth,  the  Rt.  IJpri-  Counters  of  Dawes,  William,  2  copies,  Birmingham 

Dallaway,  John,  Birmingham  Dawes,  Samuel,  2  copies,       Ditto 

Darby,  Mifs,  'Ditto  Dawes,  John,  Surgeon,  2  copies,  Ditto 

Davis,  pavid,  Pipehaty,  2  cupi^s  Ueakin,  Thomas,  Edmund-ftrcc* 


.:..  J  ''.-.::,  L  :.•.•:,  :  copies  Di  kinfun,R.Pfq.  Long  Acre, London,: 

'.-.',  M:*.  Harper'  -:,:  I  Dickinfon,  Mis.  Birmingham 

in,  J^.feph,  Birmingham  Do1/  ...  Kir,  ,'-.  Norton 

ins,  Mr.  Dolphin.  Jiiines,  Attorney , Birmingham 

.infon,  William,  Efq.  Fd5b.1ft.or1  Duncum'),  Mrs.  Sutton,  ?.  copie.- 

i. •../.;;. fo;i,  Mrs,  Ditto  Durnall,  Edward,  Birmingham 


E 

T  i'-'C3,  M  '■  r.-mJ-n  liiv'ins  Thomas,  Birmingham 

'■   •    ,''     .  r.ni'tn]  Evtreft, ,  F.fq.  Greenv,.;;.. 

Fives,  Richaid,  Belmont-Row  F.verefl,  Mrs.  Dim 

]  .'.mron,  Francis,  Poho  Edwards  Rev.Eufebius.  Hal!  rice;, 

F  ./niton,  Mifs,      Ditto  Howard:',  Captain  John,  R.  y..l  N:.v;, 

'   11,  Raphael,  Ditto  Eyre,  Rev.  James,  Solih.ili 


Hj'   y.  th:    Hon.  Mrs.  Forrmn,  Captain,  Greenwich 
-  ili  v.vs,  ?tratten  Tiiomas,  Attorney,    Porter,  Robert,  London 

Birmingham  FWler,  Mr.        Ditto 

Fidgeon,  Mis.   Erdington  Foxe's.  Mifs,  Dunton,  ;  c  >p'e- 

Fletcher,  Wiliiim,  Efq.  Aflon  Fox,  Thomas,               4  ditto 

Fletcher,  Mis.  Birmingham  Frears,  William    Birmingham 

Fletcher,  Mifs,     Ditto  Freeman,  Mrs.  Pedmore 

Fletcher,  Mrs.       Ditto  Freeman,  Mifs,  Coventry 

Fl'  rry,  Mrs.  Hagley-row  Freer,  Thomas,  Birmingham 

Fi-iyer,  • ,  Efq.   flints  Freer,  Mrs.               Ditto 

Fl  yer,  Mrs.            Ditto  Freer,  George,  Surgeon,  Ditto 

Foa'.kes,  Efq.  Hants  and  Bloomibury,    Freer,  Mrs.  Ditto 

4  copies  Freeth,  Mifs,                     Ditto 

Forman,  Henry,  Efq.   Woolwich,  2      French,  Rev.  Mr.  London 

copies  French,  Homing,  Efq.  Ditto 

F"o! man,  William,  Greenwich  Freeman,  James,   Briftol 

Fjrman, •,  Efq.  the  Tower  Francis,  Thomas,  Hagley  row 

c. 

'  rait,  n,  Mrs.  Crcfcent,  Birmingham,   Goodall,  Thomas,  Efn.  Mi  feJry 

pies  CJondall,  Michael,  Birmingham 

e,  James,  Briftol  Gonde,  Mrs.  Coventry 

Gibbons,  Mil  .  >ar:   n,  2  copies  draff,  M:s.  Stomcigh    Ibbey,  4  copic 

Gibb  ,  Joleph,  Birmingham  Gravenor,  Mrs.  Coventry 

Gilbcit,  Mr.            Ditto  Grcathead,  ,  Ffq.  Bnfto!,    ;  .-.  pi 

Gilliy,  William,  M.  D.  Ditto  Green,  Fhomas,  Efq.  Haibornc,  e.  nit 

Giles,  David,  Warrtonc  Gt-cn,  Mis.                      Ditto       ;  J.( 

.  William,  London,  1  copies  Green,    i'.h  mis  ,  Birnve.gh  m 
<  iii!,  Thomas,  Birmingham,  z  c  ;p.ics    Green,  Thomas,   Kir.'    No:  ton 

Gill,    Fhonns,  I/m .!   n  '  ri  e,  ]  ofeph,  Ilancil'v 

( itm'vctt,  Ji/no,  W.iiaii  .-. ,i  eia.  Mr.  Ihimingham  I T  .-.!: 

I,  r.irmi       . ..:..  <  .:  ,-.    ,  Mr.  K  •  Wi  ••    -orm  ;: 

'  •        '  .  Mi.    I.ie.it.eld    "  (  Irundy,  Mrs.  Li  ,htw    ,:ds 

'on,  J  i:n'.-,  D"ii;e-i.!  1    rundy,  'i'ho.iir.--,  Bi:mi    .'. 

Gi'ld.  M  -.  i.  n:gli  •    :    lis  1  (  ;r:imi'\ ,   Mrs.               ■  j i ; : < 

Gv  !.  Mich.iei,  I5irmingh:.m  I      ".' ,  '1  h                     Dice 

:  •    hii,  \i  :„      :.>.r. 


II 

Hackct,  John,  Efq.  Sutton.  2  copies  Hicks,  Mrs.  Wilbraham,  C.imbridgelh. 

Haden,  Henry,  Balfal-heath  Hinckley,  Mrs. 

Hadley,  Thomas,  Camden  hill,  2  Ilipkifs,  Mrs.  Birmingham 

Hadiey,  Henrv,  Weftbromwich,  2  Hobday,  Mrs.       Ditto 

Hall,  Mifs,  EcclefhaJl  Hodgetts,  T.  Briftol 

Hall,  the  Rev.  Mr.  London  Hodgkinibn,  Mr.  Birmingham 

Halworthy,  Mr.  Tarn  worth  Ilolden,  William,     Ditto 

Hammond,    Samuel,    Birmingham-  Ilolden,  Mrs.  Ditto 

heath,  2  copies  Hollier,  Mifs,   Haglcy 

Harrington,  the  Rev.  R.  Hagiey  Holmes,  John,  Birmingham 

Harris,  John,  Birmingham  Homer,  Edward,  Weft  Town 

Harrifon,  John,  Erdington,  4  copies  Honeyborn, ,  Efq    London 

Hartihorn,  Benjamin,  Birmingham  Honeyborn,  Mrs.  Ditto 

Hafkins,  Henry,  Efq.  T.angford  Hooper,  Mr.  King's  Norron 

Hafwell,  Mifs,  Birmingham  Hoifley,  Mifs  Anne,  Brifnalls  end 

Haughton,  William,  Ditto  Horton,  John,  Deritend 

Hawker,  Mrs.  Birmingham  heath  How,  Mr.    Briftol 

Hawkes,  T.  L.  Mofeley  Howell,   James,  Efq.    Strand,  London, 

Hawksford,  Mifs,  Bath  2  copies 

Hay,  Mrs.  Hull  Howel!,  the  Rev.  Mr.  Swanfea 

Haydon,  Mrs.  Camden-ftreet  Hudfon, ,  Efq.  Greenwich 

Hart,  Thomas,  Briftol  Hudfon,  Mifs,  Ditto 

Haynes,  Richard,  Birmingham,  2  Hudfon,  Richard,  Birmingham 

Hayward,  Mr.  Ncwington,  3  copies  Hughes,  Benjamin,     Ditto 
Heaton,  Bernard  Shephard,  Birmingh.  Humphrys,  Geoige,  Efq.  Ditto,  2  copies 

Heaton.  Mrs.  Ditto  Hunt,  William,  Efq.  Brades,      4  ditto 

Heely.  J.   hjplloway-head,  2  copies  Hunt,  Mrs.  Ditto         2  ditto 

Uenryfon,  Mrs   Batheafton,  4  copies  Hunt,  Harry,  Crefccnt,  Birmingham 

Hefketh,  Edward,  Efq.  Briftol  Hunt,  Mrs.'       Ditto  Ditto 

Hewitt,  Mifs,  Coventry  Hunt,  John,       Ditto  Ditto 

Hewitt,  the  Rev.  J.  Dyer,  A.  M.Fil-  Hunter,  Charles,  Birmingham 

loogley  Hurd,  John,  Ditto         2  copies 

Hewlett,  Mr    Birmingham  Hurd,  James,  Ditto 

Ilicks,  William,  Efq.  Moneyhill-hall  Hutton,  William,      Ditto 

J 

Jabet,  Richard,  Birmingham  Johnftone,  John,  M.  D.  Birmingham 

Jam:s,  William,  Efq.  Jones,  Mrs.  Alceftcr 

Jefcoat,  Richard,  Birmingham  joncs,  Mifs  Anne,  Birmingham 

Jenner,   Dr.  Bond-ftreet,    London,  %  Jones,  Mifs,  Briftol 

Tenner,  Mrs.  Ditto  2  Jones,  Mr.  Crefcent,  2  copies 

Jennings,  Mifs,  Greenwich  Jordan,  J.  S.  Birmingham 

Ingram,  Thomas  Efq.  Tickenhall,  2  Jukes,  Jofeph,  Birmingham,  2  copies 

Ingram,  M  5.  London,  4  copies  Iddins,  John,  Birmingham-heath 

Job  ifjn,  Ciau  i.  Birmingham  Ireland,  Mrs.       Ditto 

Johnfon,  Mrs.  Burleighfield  Ireland.  Abraham,  Ditto 

Job  iftone,  Kdward,  M.  D.  Mofely,  1  Ifaacfon, ,  Efq.  London 

Johnftonc,  Mrs.  Ditto,  2 

K 

Keir,  James,  Efq.  Tipton  Ketland  Thomas,  Birmingham 

Kempfav,  ,  Birmingham  Kettle,  William,  Efq.  2  copies 

Kcmof.a,  Mifs,  Sandpits  Kettle,  Mrs    Overfeal 

Kcmpfon,  Henry,  Spiinghill  Kendall,  John,  Birmingham 

Kennedy,  Rev.  Harm,  Birmingham  Kindon,  Charles,  Birmingham 

Kennedy,  George,  Surgeon,  Ditto  Kindon,  Mr.  Eafy-row 


Lawk}*,  the  Dowager  Lady,  4  copies  Lewin,  Mrs.  Solihull 

Lawley,  Mifs,  1  copies  Line,  Mr.  Charity-fchool 

Lewis,  H.  G.  Efq.  Malvern-hall  Link,  Mifs,  Briftol 

Lewis,  Hon.  Mrs.  Linwood,  Mrs.  Birmingham 

Lander,  Mr.  Lloyd,  Sampfon,  Birmingham 

Lander,  George,  Birmingham  Lloyd,  Sampfon,  jun.  Small-heath 

Lane,  John,  Efq.  Mofeley  Lobrott,  Frederick,  Five  Ways 

Laugh:  r,  Charles,  Birmingham  Lord,  J.  Efq.  Stratford 

Law  rence,  John,         Ditto  Lord,  Mrs.       Ditto 

Leamon, ,  Efq,  Greenwich  Lovell,  James,  Efq. 

Lee,  Mr.  King's  Norton  Lovell,  Mifs,  Kingfton 

Ec-e,  Tiiomas,  Ed-bafton,  2  copies  Lowe,  Mifs,  Camphill 

Legge,  Heneagc,  Efq.  Afton-hall  Lowe,  Mifs  Eft  her,  Ditto 
Leonard,  Mis.  Weftbromwich 

M 

Madan,  Rev.  Spencer,  Birmingham  Millington,  Mifs,  London 

Mainwaring,  Ambrofe,  Ditto  Mills,  Mrs.  Sarah,  Birmingham 

Male,  James,  Efq.  Bellcvue  Molefworth,  Thomas,  Ditto 

Malkin,  Samuel,  Winfon-grcen  Moor,  Jofeph,  Ditto 

Mander, ,  Birmingham  More,  Mrs.  Hannah,  Bath,  2  copies 

Marindin,  J.  P.      Ditto  Morfit,  John,  Barrifter,  Birmingham 

Marfh,  Mrs.  Crefcent,  Ditto  Morgan, ,  Attorney,  Briftol 

Marfhall,  Mifs,  London  Morris,  Mrs.  Birmingham 

Marfhall,  William,  jun.  Birmingham  Murcott.  Andrew,  Warwick 

Marfton,  Jofeph,  Ditto  Murduck, 

iMafon,  Mrs.  Stratford  Murgrave,  Mrs.  Cambridge 

Mafon,  William  Wallis,  Birmingham  Mynd,  Mrs.  Birmingham 

May,  Mis.  Summerhill  Mynors,  Mifs,    Ditto 

Menyweather, ,  Efq.  London  Mynors,  Robert,  Surgeon,  Ditto 

Millar,  James,  Limner,  Birmingham 

N 

Newbv, ,  Birmingham  Nicklin,  Captain,  2  copies 

Nicklin.,  Mrs.  Sutton  N  ible,  Mifs,  Birmingham 

o 

Ormond,  William,  Briflol  Oughton,  Mrs.  Summerhill 

Ofbornc,  Jamci,  Birmingham  Oughton,  Jonn,  Efq.  Berwood-hcath 


Parkyns,  Lady,  Rur.r.y-pail*,  4  copies   Pattefon,  Edmund  Wacc,  Hagley  row 

Paine,  Thomar,  Birmingham  Pattefon,  the-  R:-v.  ,  Richmond 

Paint'-r,  John,  Ditto  Paylcr,  Tlruibs.  I  I'm.  Eondon 

Palm:  r,  f.  J.  Biift«l  Pe.irfon,  Richard,  M.  D.  Ditto 

Palmer,  Edward,  I  fq.  Birmingham,  3   Peaifi    >,  Mrs.  Ditto 

Parker,  Thomas,  Cm    ..;;/  Pearfoi:,  Richard,  Birmingham 

Parr, ,  !>.  1).  Itatton  Pen  \  Mrs.  Ditto      2  copies 

Parry,  Mr.  Brill    i  Perk:    .,  S.  S.  Efq.  Oi  ton  011-thc 

Paif  :'.s.  Rev. ,  Ilitchin,  Herts       lcnu:.',  n  i;.  -.  Efq.   iutton,  :.  copies 


Perkins,  Mrs.  Sutton,  2  copies  Pratchett,  Richard,  Birmingham,  2 

Perkins,  Mrs.  Birmingltam  Price,  Theodore,  Efq.  Harl)ornc,  2 

Perkins,  Mifs,       Ditto  Price,  Mrs.  Ditto      2 

Philp,  Mr-  So-io  Price,  Philemon,  Birmingham 

Phillips,  Mr.  John,  Ditto  Price,  Lieutenant  W,  P.  in  India 

Phillips,  Mr.  Birmingham  Price,  the  Rev. — ,  Abbots  Bromley 

Phipfon,  Thomas,  Ditto  Price,    the  Rev,  Henry,  Magdalen  Coi- 
Pickard,  James,  Ditto  lege,  Oxford 

Pickering,  Mr.  Luddington  Price,  Richard,  Briftol 
Pixel],  the  Rev.  Charles,  A.  M.  Ec!g-  Pritchitt,  Rice,  Birmingham 

barton  Prottor,  Mrs.  Ditto 

Pixel!,  Mrs.  Ditto  Proffer,  Mr.  Sutnmerhill 

Pickering,  the  Rev. ,  Smethwick  Prout,  T.  O.  Efq.  Holliwell 

Player,  Mrs.  London  Powel,  Mifs,  London 

Potts,  Mrs.  Birmingham  Pyc,  Rev.  Henry,  Lapworth 
Powell,  Edward,  Brirtol 


R 

Rabone,  Richard,  Birmingham  Rogers,  John,  Birmingham 

Rabone,  Jofeph,         Ditto  Rogers,  Herbert,  Worceircr 

Rabone,  Samuel,        Ditto  Rolfe,  William,  Birmingham 

Ravee,  Anthony,       Ditto  Rollafon,  Mrs.  Hagley 

Redfern,  Bartholomew,  Ditto  Roper,  Jofeph,  Crefcent, Birmin3h.11 

Reynolds, ,  Efq.  Coppice-houfe  Rofe,  Mifs,  Davent'y 

Reynolds,  Mifs,  Brewood  Rofe,  Mifs,  Haymill-brook 

Reynolds,  James,  Birmingham  Rotton,  John,  jun.  Belmont- row 

Richards,  Mrs.  Camphill  Rowlinfon,  Daniel,  Birmingham.  1 

Richards,  Theophilus,  Birmingham  Ruifell,  Thomas,  Efq.   Birmingham 

Richards,  Mrs.  Ditto  Puffell,  Samuel,  Efq.  Ditto 

Richards,  Thomas,  Ditto  Ruffell, ,  jun.  Ditto 

Richards,  George,  Sheldon  Rufton,  Mrs.  Ditto 

Richards,  Mrs.  Ryder,  Mr.  London 

Riggs,  Mrs.  Ruffell-place,  London  Ryland,  John,  Efq.  Birmingham 

Roach,  Mr.  Birmingham  Ryland,  Samuel,  Ditto 

Robinfon,  the  Rev. ,  Halesowen  Ryland,  Mifs,  Birmingham 

Robinfon,  Mrs.  Birmingham  Ryland,  Samuel,  jun.  Ditto 

Rock,  Mr.  Walfall  Ryland,  William,       Ditto  c  copies 

Rock,  John,  Birmingham  Ryland,  Mrs.  Sutton 

Rock,  Mifs,       Ditto  Ryley,  Mrs.  Coventry 

Rogers,  Mrs.  Samuel,  Ditto  Ryley's,  Mifs,  Hamftall,  4  copies 

Rogers,  Mifs,  Ditto 


Sanders,  Mark,  Birmingham  Short,  Rev.  John,    Temple  I'alfal! 

Sanfom,  Mrs.  Afhted  Silvciter,  James,  Manchelter 

Sargent,  Mr.  Birmingham  Simcox,  George,  Efq.  Birmingham 

Seaton,  Mifs.  London  Simcox,  Mrs.  !>itto 

Seward,  Mifs,  Lichfield,    2  copies  Simcox,  Mifs,  Ditto 

Scott,  Jofeph,  Efq.  Great  Barr  Simcox,  Mifs  Mary,  Camphill 

Tcott,  Mrs.  Greenwich  Simpfon,  Edward,  Efq. 

Scott,  Mrs.  Birmingham  Skry,  R.  S.  Birmingham 

Sheffield,  William,  F.fq.  London  Skey,  Mrs.  Ditto 

Sheldon,  Jofeph,  Wafh wood-heath  Smalhv^od,  Thomas,  Ditt^ 

Shore,  Jofeph,  Birmingham  Small,  Mrs.  Soiihuli 


-vi-.nrt,  James,  Birmingham  Spencer,  the  Rev.  Benjamin,  Afton 

Smith,  ,  F.fq.  Spencer,  Mis.  Ditto 

Smith,  Benjamin,  Birmingham  Spencer,  Mifs,  Ditto 

Smith,  Thomas,  M.  D.  Ditto  Spilfbury, ,  Efq.  London 

Smith.  William,  Ditto  Spilfbi.ry,  Mis.  Ditto 

Smith,  William,  Sand-pits  Stanbridgc,  Mr.  jun.  Birmingham 

Smith,  William,  HarooriiC  Stancliffe,  Joiin,  F.  L.  S.  Cam-,  College, 

Smith,  Lilly,  F.fq.  Warwick,  2  copies  Cambridge 

Smith,  Edward,  Birmingham  Startin,  John,  Springhill 

Smith,  Mifs,  Ditto  Steward,  Mrs.  Stourton  Caftle 

Smith,  William,  Attorney,  Ditto  Stiff,  J.  Briitol,  2  copies 

Smith,  J.R.  Elq.  Kiu_;-ilreet,Covent-  Stokes,  Benjamin,  F.fq.  Hagiey-row 

Smith,  Mrs.  DiUo  [garden  stokes,  Thomas.  Elq. 

Smith,  Mils,  Ditto  Story,  David,  Birmingham 

Smith,  M;l"s  Eliza,  Ditto  Stuait,  Charles,  Attorney,  Birmingham 

Smith,  Samuel,  Birmingham  Scubbs,  George,  Ditto 

'nape,  John,  Land-furveyor,  Ditto  Sutherland,  Richard,  Ditto 

Snow,  Captain,  Greenwich  Sutherland,  Ramfay,  El'q. 

Southern,  Mr.  Soho  Sutti  n,  Benjamin,  Birmingham 

Southern,  Mis.  Ditto  Swinncv,  Mrs    Birmingham 


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Tayler,  ,  Efq.  Keni! worth,  6  'I  hompfuii,  Mifs,  London 

Tayior,  John,  Surgeon,  Birmingham  'I  immins,  James,  Birmingham 

Taylor, ,  Ditto,  Wednefoury  '1  inur.ii>,  George,     Ditto 

Taylor.  Mrs.  Birmingham  Tomlinfon,  Th<  mas,  Surgeon,  Ditt 

Terry,  ,  Sutton,  i  copies  Torkington,  JelTc,  Ditt 

L'erry, ,  M.  D.  Cover. try  Townfhend,  Mrs.  Sutton,  2  copies 

'I  horn.:-,  Henry,  Birmingham  Townlhend,  Jofeph,  Birmingham 

.  ;.  imas,  William,  A'.hted  Townfhend,  Mrs.  Ditto 

Ihompfon,  Mrs.  jane,  London  Turner,  Mrs.  Ditto 


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'■  ale,  Humphry,  Birmingham  Villers,  Mrs.  Mofeiey 

Va.e,  Mis.  Ditto  Villers,  John,  Efq.  Coventry 

Vale,  M:-.  Coventry  Villers,  Mrs.  Ditto 

Vauglitun,  Rodger,  Efq.  AfhfoHand  Villers,  Mifs,  Ditto 

hton,  Mrs.  Ditto  Villers,  James,  Efq.  Handfwo: 

Caughton,  Humphry,  Eirmii.gl-.am  Villers,  Mrs.  Ditto 

Vaux,  Jeremiah,  Surgeon,  Ditto  Undei  hill,  John,  Cainphiii 

Vilicrs,  William,  Efq.  Mofeiey  Lnett, ,   Attorney,    ><:.;.: 


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Wadfworth,  M.«.  I::.,;,  n  W.vkcr,  Zaccheus,  Birming!   ;■. 

Waiford,  Mrs.  Hagiey-row  V,  .,;!!.,  William,         Ditt.) 

Wal ford,  Mils  W,  :d,  Robert,  Surgeon,  Ditto 

W:.i\  i,  Wiiii;.m:  Birmingham  W;.:;J.  John.  Five  Wa-,  , 

v',  -Ikct,  M;s.  Ditt  )  Wardroper.  Mr.  I.ond  in 

;er,  Alexander,  Smcthwick  Wain  r.   Ih  ma  ,  hirmii        .•: 

'•'•  alker,  Mrs.  Ditt  j  Wan  en,  1  ti    111:  *.  Can!       :    m 


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Watt,  James,  Eiq.  Heathfield 
Watt,  Mrs.  Ditto 

Watt,  James,  jun.     Ditto 
Watt,  Gregory  Ditto 

Watts,  William,  Briftol 
Webb,  Mr.  Sutton 
Webb,  Mr.  Attorney,  Birmingham 
Webb,  Mifs,  Ditto 

Webb,  Mifs,  Kingfton 
Webfter,  Mrs.  Birmingham 
Wedge,  Mr.  Packington 
Welch,  Mifs,  Birmingham 
Welch,  Thomas,  Attorney,  Ditto 
Wefton,  Mr.  Jofeph,  Solihull 
Whalley,the  Rev.  J.  S.  Langford,  4 
Whalley,  Mrs.  Ditto,         4 

Whateley,  Thomas,  Birmingham 
Wheeler,  Robert,  Ditto 

Wheeler,  S.  A. 

Wheeley,  Francis,  Birmingham 
Wheeley,  John,  Worcefter 
White,  Mrs. 

White,  the  Rev.  Henry,  Lichfield 
"Whitehead,  Mr.  London 
Whitmore,  Mrs.  Birmingham 
Wigan,  Mrs.  Fletchamfted 
Wiggin,  Henry,  Birmingham 
Wigon,  Mr.  Kenilworth 


Wilkes,  Mrs.  Mofelev 
Wilkes,  Rev.  R.  Reft'or  of  Envil 
Wilkinfon,  Mrs.  Birmingham 
Willetts,  Mrs.  Wcdnefbury 
Williams,  Benjamin,  Birmingham 

Williams,  •• ,  Ditto 

Willington,  Mrs.  London 
Willington,  Mifs,    Ditto 
Wilmore,  Thomas,  Birmingham,  2 
Willis,  Mrs.  Pipe-hall,  2  copies 
Winfield,  John,  Hagley-row 
Withering,  Mrs.  the  Larches 

Woodcock,  the  Rev. ,  Birmingham 

Woolley  James,  Ditto    2 

Woolley,  Mrs.  Soho 

Worth, ,  Efq.  Erdington,  2  copier 

Wrench,  Captain,  Fillongley 
Wright,  Mrs.  Hawkefbury 
Wroughton,  Mrs. 
Wilmore,  James,  Birmingham 
Wilmore,  Jofeph,     Ditto 
Wilmore,  Thomas,  jun.  Ditto 
Wyatt,  Mifs,  Bellefield 
Wyatt,  Samuel,  Burton,  3  copies 
Wyatt,  Mrs.  Mofeley 
Wynne,  William,  Birmingham 
Wynne,  Cornelius,        Ditto 


Yates,  Rev.  R.  W.  Solihull 
Yates,  Mrs.  Ditto 

Yates,  Mifs  Catharine,  Ditto 
Young,  Rev.  Wm.  Toy,  Birmingham- 


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